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.

Iracema Da Luz Ferreyra’s community in Colonia Alegría, Argentina has seen the effects of deforestation and have awakened to the importance of trees for their lives and livelihoods...

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: Susta...

There are still hours to go before dawn, but the roosters of Magdalena Laine are already crowing when the 59-year-old farmer from the Kichwa Indigenous Peoples turns on the sole bulb illuminating the patio of her farm, located outside the Ecuadorian Andean town of Cotacachi. Then, she begins to s...

At a high-level inception workshop in Baghdad, Iraq took a major step forward with its first-ever Green Climate Fund project. The SRVALI initiative, backed by $39 million in investments, will support nearly 2 million people in adapting to climate change through smarter water use, renewable energy, and inclusive agriculture.

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New FAO analysis shows that, despite agrifood systems having the potential to reduce global emissions by a third, climate-related development finance for the sector is stagnating, and its overall share is declining compared to other sectors.

Women farmers in Cambodia are growing climate resilient – starting with rice seeds

The 2025 Standing Committee on Finance Forum of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. The Forum takes place at a critical juncture on the road to the next UN C...

A former iron sand mine transformed into a terraced agro-silvo-pastoral system, a landscape of stone-walled citrus orchards in Japan, and an iconic Mediterranean terraced system on the steep coastal slopes of Italy are the latest additions to the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (...

A new study co-authored by FAO and experts from 17 countries published in Nature Communications gives us a glimpse of what Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems could look like under different ecological pressures, including from rising temperatures and biodiversity loss.

Preserving and restoring natural vegetation is essential to halting the global decline of biodiversity. Without biodiversity, we cannot ensure the future of food security and food diversity which is why countries and decision makers are turning to land restoration as a solution.

As the global community confronts the escalating realities of climate change, Zambia faces increasingly urgent challenges. From destructive flash floods to prolonged droughts, climate-related events are threatening livelihoods, particularly in rural communities reliant on agriculture and natural resources. While multiple interventions have been introduced by government and development partners, sustainable impact remains vague without the meaningful engagement of traditional leaders. 

The Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture (SCALA) programme, co-led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Development Programme, has already achieved significant milestones since its inception in 2020.

Across the world, climate change is shifting the delicate balance that keeps plants – and everything they support - healthy. As temperatures rise, rains become less predictable, and extreme weather strikes more often, plant pests and diseases are spreading in ways not seen before. The consequences reach far beyond crops. In a world where human, animal, plant and environmental health are deeply connected, protecting plant health has never been more critical.

An integrated mountain agropastoral system in Tajikistan has become the first Central Asian addition to the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, with a pine tree agroforestry system and traditional bamboo and fishery system in the Republic of Korea and an agrosilvopastoral system in Portugal also recognized. 

Chiang Mai, Thailand – Stretching from Bhutan to Papua New Guinea, the Indo-Malaya forest biome harbors one of the last major primary forest areas in the world, hosting more than 5,000 threatened species. 60 percent of its original vegetation is already lost, and the remaining pr...