Rome – World coffee prices reached a multi-year high in 2024 - increasing 38.8 percent on the previous year’s average – mostly driven by inclement weather affecting key producing countries, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said today.

According to an FAO no...

Women are central to producing and providing our food, yet they are among the hardest hit by climate change, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This is rooted in longstanding inequalities, but women are working to change the narrative.

Gulbakhira Botokanova, a dynamic activist and educator in Kyrgyzstan, drives sustainable development, women's empowerment, and climate resilience through an FAO-backed, Green Climate Fund project. Her leadership advances forest conservation, well-being, and economic growth. Here's how...

For International Women’s Day 2025, the SCALA programme sat down with Sibyl Nelson, the Lead Programme Advisor for the Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture (SCALA) programme. She coordinates global implementation while also serving as the Gender Focal Point. She has worked on g...

December 12, 2024: FAO reaffirmed its commitment to tackling the challenges of plastic pollution in agriculture during the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5), which concluded on December 1, 2024 in Busan.

The year 2024 was the hottest on record and the first to hit 1.5 ºC above pre-industrial levels, making the need for transformative climate solutions more urgent than ever. To be truly effective, these solutions must also address hunger and malnutrition, as well as mounting biodiversity loss and ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved funding for two new projects valued at over $130 million to bolster climate resilience and promote sustainable development in Kenya and Serbia. The initiatives will benefit over 6 million people and address the interconnected challenges of climate change, agriculture, forestry, and energy security...

Santiago de Chile – Changing patterns of climate variability and extreme weather events are negatively affecting all dimensions of food security and exacerbating other underlying causes of malnutrition in all its forms in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the 2024 Reg...

The new “Food security and agriculture: accelerating adaptation (SAGA 2)” website has just been launched. Explore it today to discover how we are reinforcing the implementation of climate adaptation for food security in Côte d'Ivoire, Haiti and Senegal.

Rome - The rise in nitrogen fertilizers over the past century has significantly contributed to enhancing agricultural production and bolstering food security and nutrition for an expanding global population. Nevertheless, improper use of nitrogen can severely damage air, water, and soil qual...

In the small village of Betano, nestled in the lush landscapes of central Timor-Leste, a simple dispute over a humble legume has caused a quiet revolution to take root.

It all started in 2019, when the women in the village became interested in piloting climate-smart agriculture techniques,...

In a year of key Conferences of the Parties focused on the dimensions of the environmental crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has shown how agrifood systems transformation can and must play a central role in addressing the interconnected challenges of climat...

How FAO’s innovations, partnerships, and advocacy shaped global solutions to environmental challenges

FAO and the Government of Malawi launch a $53.2 million project to help the country's farmers adapt to the impacts of climate change. The initiative is the largest of its kind to be led by FAO in Malawi, where 70 percent of the country lives below the international poverty line...

Lusaka, Zambia – Zambia has launched its much-awaited National Education Curriculum Framework, integrating climate change education principles at all levels.

The launch was made possible with the support of the Facility for Action for Climate Empowerment to achieve Nationally Determined ...

Thale Noi, Thailand - Director-General QU Dongyu today visited the Thale Noi Wetland Buffalo Pastoral Agro-Eco-System in southern Thailand, the first site in the country to be designated as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS). Recognized under the FAO pro...

The sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to take place from 2-13 December 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, will focus on “Our Land. Our Future” as it celebrates its  30th anniversary. This celebration will ...

Climate technologies are critical to accelerating climate action and the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems. The challenge, however, is making sure they reach the ones who need it the most.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) brought a critical message to the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan: increased investment in agrifood systems is essential to address the climate crisis.

Over the two weeks of the international ...

It’s the crack of dawn. Magnolia Ordoñez leaves in a small boat along with her husband - the captain- and her colleagues— all women. Their task: to find and collect pianguas, a type of saltwater clam, that lives buried within the roots of mangrove trees in the Pacific region of Colombia.