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.

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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 worke...

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...

Las iniciativas, valoradas en más de 130 millones de dólares, beneficiarán a más de 6 millones de personas y abordarán los desafíos interconectados del cambio climático, agricultura, silvicultura y seguridad energética...

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 20...

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...

En la aldea de Betano, enclavada en el exuberante paisaje de la zona central de Timor-Leste, una simple disputa en torno a una modesta legumbre ha originado una revolución silenciosa.

Todo empezó en 2019, cuando las mujeres de la aldea se interesaron en poner a prueba técnicas de agricultu...

En un año en el que se han celebrado importantes Conferencias de las Partes centradas en las dimensiones de la crisis medioambiental, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) ha demostrado que la transformación de los sistemas agroalimentarios puede y deb...

Cómo las innovaciones, asociaciones y la labor de defensa de la FAO han moldeado soluciones globales a los desafíos ambientales.

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 Deter...

El Sr. QU Dongyu, Director General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), ha visitado hoy el sur de Tailandia, el primer sitio del país designado Sistema importante del patrimonio agrícola mundial (SIPAM). Reconocido en el marco del programa de...

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 celeb...

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.

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) transmitió un mensaje fundamental en la Conferencia de las Partes en la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático de 2024 (COP 29) celebrada en Bakú (Azerbaiyán): aumentar la ...

Apenas amanece cuando Magnolia Ordoñez zarpa en una pequeña embarcación junto a su esposo, el capitán, y sus compañeras, todas mujeres. Su misión: encontrar y recolectar pianguas, una especie de molusco que habita entre las raíces de los manglares en el Pacífico colombiano.