FAO welcomes IPCC special report on the link between climate change, land and food

Report provides new insights on managing droughts to safeguard food security

Because every facet of agricultural activity depends on the weather, unpredictable weather patterns caused by climate change and other meteorological phenomena have increased the need for precise weather data.

FAO’s Director-General announces new plan to support nature-based solutions to climate change

How FAO projects are encouraging youth to embrace technology and take the lead in the fight against climate change

Innovative forest monitoring platform SEPAL 2.1 goes mobile

FAO’s leader points to the need to turn food systems into accelerators of the SDGs

Dakar - The Government of Senegal, together with the Government of Quebec, FAO, and over seventy representatives from the public, research and private sectors, officially launched the Senegal component of a global project to strengthen adaptation planning capacities for food s...

Agriculture experts from 36 countries gathered in Rome from 25-27 September to exchange ideas on ways to implement the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) paving a way forward.

At a high-level discussion on the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) called for more in-depth analysis into consumer patterns and food production systems.

Innovation is key to ensuring access to water, food and income in the face of climate change

Several side events at next week’s forty-sixth plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) focus specifically on achieving food security in the face of climate change. Climate action in the agriculture sectors must lead towards low-emission, adapted, resilient food production...

A new draft report for the FAO Disaster Risk Reduction project in the Kyrgyz Republic compiles for the first time current and historical data on climate, emergencies, damage and the impact of natural hazards on...

Bangkok, Thailand. Asia’s vast landmass and growing cities are warming faster than the global average and that will have a disproportional impact on food security and livelihoods for billions of people across the region, co-authors of a global report warned today.

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Rome – FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said today international co-operation and innovative, climate friendly technologies were critical to address global food loss and waste which totals more than 1.3 billion tonnes a year.

The Director-General was addressing the H...

FAO and GEF team up in new project to make forest data more transparent, accessible and available

FAO joint projects worth $161 million to support carbon sequestration and small scale farmers'resilience

Changing the ways in which wood is harvested and traded for timber, paper and other uses is essential to fighting deforestation and the negative effects of climate change, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on the eve of a global meeting on sustainable wood production.

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Weather and climate services are vital for sustainable development and climate change adaptation. The benefits of investment greatly outweigh the cost, and yet the capacity to deliver and access these services is uneven and inadequate, according to a new report.

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Geospatial data and global network of partnerships produces new insights on more than 40 percent of the earth’s surface