The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a $50 million project, supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), to enhance the climate resilience of vulnerable smallholders in Jamaica.

What if the key to feeding future generations isn't hidden in new technology but preserved in the world's agricultural heritage systems?

Agricultural heritage is at the heart of every culture; it is the link between the past and the present. It paves the way for a food-secure future.

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Over two billion people depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. The vast majority are smallholder farmers, whose daily decisions on when to sow or irrigate are essentially tied to the weather. Without reliable information, they can be caught off-guard.

The odds are worsening, as ext...

Countries across Asia-Pacific and Central Asia are stepping up efforts to meet their climate commitments. A regional workshop held in Colombo delivered a clear and unified message: more transparent data and reporting systems, deeper regional cooperation and targeted action through agrifood systems are essential to accelerating climate action and ensuring measurable progress, leading to greater food security and better livelihoods.

Women are a powerful accelerator of change, from farms and cooperatives to national policy and global climate action, yet too often they are sidelined in rights and resources,” writes Piedad Martin in an 

Climate change is having a profound impact on farmers in Cambodia. Rising temperatures—which have increased at a rate of +0.23 °C per decade since 1950—combined with highly variable rainfall patterns, are disrupting agricultural livelihoods across the country. Farmers face increasing dry spells, ...

Agricultural losses are accelerating as weather extremes intensify. According to a quantitative assessment using data from FAOSTAT and FAO's Emergency Events Database, climate-related disasters cost global agriculture an estimated

On Food and Agriculture Day, key stakeholders in action to transform agrifood systems and mitigate super-pollutants combined forces to discuss ways to unlock the finance needed to deliver results for the climate.

The Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST) Partnership, launched at COP27, is a multi-stakeholder platform created to tackle one of the toughest challenges for agrifood systems: unlocking access to climate finance at scale.

FAO convened a two-day workshop on Plastics and One Health in Agrifood Systems, bringing together global experts to discuss the risks and impact pathways of plastic pollution. It was a chance to strengthen a shared understanding of how these interconnected issues ...

From Biodiversity and Climate communities convening in Rome to COP30 in Belém, and from Sahelian rangelands to Cambodian rice fields, OCB worked across FAO to make the case that food and agriculture are not only affected by climate change and biodiversity loss; they are central to solving them.

As part of the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Government of Quebec presented a symbolic gift of 80 blue flag iris bulbs to FAO at its headquarters in Rome. 

Food and Agriculture Day at the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) took place on 19 November, with multiple events addressing related issues.

As climate change increasingly threatens agricultural lands, the 2025 World Soil Day serves as a reminder of the crucial role of soils, particularly in peri-urban zones that supply growing cities. To mark World Soil Day 2025, the SAGA 2 project highlights the “Climate Advisory Clubs” approach, wh...

On the front lines of climate change impacts, farmers, Indigenous Peoples, and local communities also are crucial actors in the fight to reduce emissions and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, these actors face challenges in accessing the climate finance necessary for reducing agr...

Sustainable and resilient agrifood systems are essential for achieving the Paris Agreement targets on climate change while ensuring food security and nutrition for present and future generations. This was the overarching message delivered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na...

Land degradation stands as one of the most pressing challenges of our time, undermining food security, accelerating biodiversity loss, and exacerbating climate change, with 1 billion hectares of land degraded worldwide. It also represents an opportunity: restoring degraded farmland, such as cropl...

Forests are at the heart of COP30 discussions in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém. But less is said about how forests provide a vital support system for agriculture. Promoting synergies between the two is therefore essential for sustainable agrifood system transformation in the face of climate ...

Ministers unite at COP30 to launch FIRST (the Farmers’ Initiative for Resilient and Sustainable Transformations), a major South–South effort to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture. Alongside FIRST, Brazil and the United Kingdom launched the Belém Declaration on Fertilisers...

Ten countries have announced their support for an innovative new Brazil-led accelerator that will unite governments and investors behind a shared goal: restoring the world’s farmland to strengthen food security, tackle climate breakdown, and protect biodiversity.