Global project helping vulnerable countries adapt to climate change launches second phase with $5 million investment.

Last week, another conversation in the HerStory series took place with Raquel Gaspar, a marine biologist from Portugal devoted to engaging local communities in ocean protection and empowering women to engage in seagrass meadows conservation. The conversation was led b...

FAO led events and hosted the Food and Agriculture Pavilion with CGIAR and the Rockefeller Foundation at the 2-week UN Climate Conference in Sharm-el Sheikh.

A shift towards sustainable, climate-resilient food production and consumption based on healthy diets would reduce health and climate change costs by up to US$1.3 Trillion by 2030.

Did you know that there are more living organisms in a single tablespoon of soil than there are people on the planet? These organisms are part of a complex web of biological activity that sustains life, ensuring nutrients and moisture flow in the soils where we grow 95 percent of our food. But...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has made huge strides in pushing for agrifood systems transformation towards more efficiency, inclusivity, resilience, and sustainability in the face of the climate crisis, through coherent and ambitious actions that also tackle...

The global deal aims to reverse biodiversity loss and set our world on the road to recovery

FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme supports climate-resilient agriculture in the heart of a landlocked country

Rosa Amparo Díaz leads a women's association that protects nature for future generations

Berlin – A boost in investment is essential to transform the world’s agrifood systems to become more resilient, efficient, sustainable and inclusive, while supporting countries access climate finance and ensuring that appropriate financial resources reach small and medium-scal...

Training academia in country reporting under the UNFCCC

Pulses contribute to increasing the resilience of farming systems and providing a Better Life for farmers in water scarce environments, as they have a low water footprint and can better tolerate drought and climate-related disasters compared with other food crops, making them an essential tool...

From sub-Saharan Africa to Europe and Latin America, the production and consumption of pulses increase the resilience of farming systems and improve lives.

Indigenous women play a leading role in the biodiverse agricultural and agroforestry systems, known as chakras

On January 18, FAO presented one of its latest tools developed by the Office of Climate Change Biodiversity and Environment (OCB)to support climate risk screenings, the Climate Risk Toolbox, at the

Uganda’s cattle corridor is facing increased climate extremes and variability, contributing to the reduction in agricultural yields, water scarcity, and pests and diseases, ultimately weakening the livelihoods and food security of the rural population. Unsustainable land use practices, such as...

“Empower women and girls. Empowering women is the single most important way to ensure effective climate action. Women not only have the right to participate in decision-making processes that affect everybody’s lives but have their own specific knowledge of biodiversity and indispensable expert...

At the 5th UN Conference on the LDCs in Doha, Qatar, Máximo Torero called for investments to minimize, cope and recover from risks affecting food security

The initiatives in partnership with FAO are focused on fostering climate adaptation and resilience for smallholder farmers

Transforming agrifood systems is essential to adapt to human-caused climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said today in the face of the latest report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Climate change is primarily a water crisis, but sustainable water management offers solutions, from harvesting rainwater to storing treated wastewater