A side event brought IPCC, FAO, and WMO voices together to show how climate science can drive safer agrifood systems, highlighting findings from key reports on heat impacts and emissions data.

Developing countries recognize the urgent need to adapt agrifood systems to climate change, but most National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) are struggling to address key risks or protect vulnerable groups due to severe financing and capacity gaps, according to a landmark report released on Tuesday by t...

تحمل السيدة Soda Thai صورة قديمة بين يديها. وتظهر في الصورة وهي تحتضن طفلها، وإلى جانبها زوجها بملابس مهترئة. وتتذكّر تلك الأيام الصعبة وتقول: "كنت آنذاك بلا عمل، ولا منزل، ولا أرض. ولم تكن لديّ حتى الموارد التي تمكّنني من العمل في الزراعة". فقبل ثمانية عشر عامًا، لم تكن لتتدبّر أمورها لولا المسا...

As countries finalize their next national climate commitments – known as nationally determined contributions, or NDCs – at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the world faces a defining test: whether global action can still meet the Paris Agreement’s goals and put agrifood systems at...

The UK Government today announced long-term funding of GBP 16.9 million for the Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests) programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

As COP30 tackles how to measure progress on adaptation, a side event brings together speakers from francophone countries on how they track, learn, and fund climate-resilient agriculture.

في قلب إقليم كانينديو، شرق باراغواي، تمتدّ الغابة وكأنها بيتٌ متعدد الغرف. تنهض جذوع الأرزّ جدرانًا وتتشابك الأوراق والأغصان لتشكّل الأسقف. وفي الطابق الأرضي، تنبت الأعشاب التي تُستخدم في التداوي، ويتحول بساط الأوراق إلى نشارة تحفظ الرطوبة وتعيد المغذيات إلى التربة المنهكة. وكل زاوية في هذا المنزل المشيّد من الغابة لها معنى، ولكل جزءٍ فيه فائدة.

A new White Paper released Monday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aims to bring together, in one place, a host of recent research findings and offers a synthesi...

How can we transform our agrifood systems to both withstand climate shocks and help tackle the climate crisis?

Transforming global agrifood systems to be more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable is critical to meeting the Paris Agreement targets on climate change. Yet, the persistent shortfall in climate finance represents “a lost opportunity” for a sector that could cut global emissions by u...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the launch of the Call to Action on Integrated Fire Management and Wildfire Resilience today at the Belém ClimateSummit ahead of the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil.

omething delicious is happening in Brazil’s Bahia region. Here, where forests were once razed to make room for full-sun cocoa plantations, this corner of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest—one of the planet’s richest yet most threatened ecosystems—is now the site of a quiet agricultural revolution.

As the world faces the twin crises of climate change and global health threats, the importance of the One Health approach has never been clearer. This integrated framework – linking the health of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems – offers a transformative path to address the cas...

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), taking place in Belém, Brazil, brings together world leaders, scientists, non-governmental organizations, and civil society to define urgent actions against climate change. Through its participation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is working with countries and partners to place agriculture and food security at the centre of negotiations, including discussions on the Global Goal on Adaptation, loss and damage, nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), climate finance, technology and just transition.

رأى المجتمع المحلي الذي تعيش فيه السيدة Iracema Da Luz Ferreyra في منطقة كولونيا أليغريا في الأرجنتين آثار إزالة الغابات بأم العين وأدرك الجميع أهمية الأشجار لحياتهم وسبل عيشهم.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a $31 million grant-based payment for a landmark climate project in Uganda, recognizing the country’s tangible achievements in curbing deforestation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Exactly 80 years ago, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) was founded at the Château Frontenac in Quebec City, on 16 October 1945. At that time, 44 nations came together with a common purpose: to build a world free from hunger and to support agricultural development. Eight decades later, that same spirit of cooperation continues to thrive between FAO and Quebec, now centred on today’s pressing challenges: climate change, biodiversity, and food security. 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is supporting the design of an ambitious new global facility for securing the future of tropical forests, discussed at a high-level event in New York this week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Women in The Gambia are reviving cockle farming with support from FAO, the Green Climate Fund and the Gambian Government. Through the PROREFISH project, coastal communities are restoring once-depleted mudflats with this beloved shellfish. Here's how climate action is boosting food security and improving livelihoods.

Agrifood systems hold myriad solutions to address the impacts of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and food insecurity. This was the message FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, delivered during a high-level dialogue “Scaling Up Climate Response through Agrifood Systems:...