New FAO website offer examples of how farming can prepare for a warmer world, reduce emissions Farmers around the world are adopting new ways of producing food that both help cope with climate change and reduce farming's greenhouse...

Agriculture in developing countries must become 'climate-smart' in order to cope with the combined challenge of feeding a warmer, more heavily populated world, says a new FAO report.Climate change is expected to reduce agriculture productivity, stability and incomes in many...

FAO has launched the Second Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, the definitive healthcheck on the biodiversity of crops. Much has changed since FAO published its last report twelve years ago, including...

In Bangladesh, nearly 160 million people live in an area less than half the size of Italy and the population is expected to expand by about two million people per year. The country has managed to triple its rice production...

The world's forest biodiversity is threatened by a high global rate of deforestation and forest degradation as well as a decline in primary forest area. In many countries, however, there is a continued positive trend towards the conservation of forest...