The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) Summit was hosted by the United States in Washington, DC from 8-10 May 2023. The inaugural Summit convened over 1100 participants from 44 countries to announce actions and investments towards the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in November in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

After a protracted three-year presence La Niña has left the global atmospheric scene, making way for a likely imminent transition to El Niño, a meteorological event that typically distributes weather patterns in the opposite way. That could be relief for some drought-afflicted areas such as the Horn of Africa, but may spell trouble for other parts of Africa, Central America and Far East Asia.

April 2023 – Nepal is home of the Himalayas and a country with a unique topography, including the world's highest peaks and deep river valleys. The country has a diverse and complex climate system. Unfortunately, this topography also makes Nepal particularly vulnerable to the imp...

The devastating impacts of climate change and extreme weather on agriculture and food security featured prominently in the latest Statement on the State of the Global Climate 2022 produced by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), in partnership with FAO.  

Protecting our planet from the climate crisis through sustainable agrifood systems is fundamental if we are to ensure food security for the world’s rapidly growing population.

To emphasis the connection between climate action and the protection of our fragile earth, FAO chose 22^nd

Restoring ecosystems replenishes vital water sources in the Central American Dry Corridor

We can be the #ZeroHunger generation

Last month FAO’s EPIC (Economic and Policy Analysis of Climate Change) programme launched a new website documenting a wealth of ongoing work and past projects. 

 “…the new interface provides up-to date information on EPIC’s work to support policy makers, stakeholders and researchers and it facilitates the dissemination of our outputs to the public. It also enables us to better communicate our results to the partners.”

FAO launches the first-ever global report on the state of biodiversity that underpins our food systems

Delegates at COP24 in Poland reach another key agreement, the ‘Katowice Climate Package’

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2021–2030 the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

FAO targets local resilience-building solutions for climate-driven challenges

For many centuries, the Amazon has been home to millions of people who live in harmony with nature. These communities have developed ways of living and methods of farming that safeguard the land and its resources.   Climate change threatens not only the Amazon’s natural resources, it th...

FAO prepares to assist rural communities revive agriculture following disastrous flooding

Country cases for Cote d’Ivoire, Malawi, the Philippines and Turkey

Forestry experts from all over China are meeting today in Xi’an to collect accurate data on land use and land use change in China.

As part of the e-learning series "Building a sustainable national greenhouse gas inventory for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use" developed by FAO through the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme...

Efforts will focus on combating deforestation and boosting farmers’ resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change

Eventos climáticos adversos en el Corredor Seco centroamericano dejan a 1.4 millones de personas en necesidad de asistencia alimentaria urgente. 2.2 millones de personas en El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua perdieron sus cosechas por lluvias y sequías, de las cuales 1.4 millone...

When you rely on the rain to live, what happens when it doesn’t come?