Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is an effort to create financial value from the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from forested lands and invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development....

The agreement on the Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing Climate Programme was signed between the Government of Finland and FAO in March 2009 at FAO headquarters, Rome. The Finland-FAO Forestry Programme aims at strengthening the FAO resources and capacity in methodological and...

The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, along with the Global Partnership Climate, Fisheries and Aquaculture (PaCFA), support raising awareness on these issues to promote a coordinated response from the fisheries and aquaculture sector to climate change, notably through a strategic...

Action Against Desertification is a new €41 million programme launched in 2014 by the European Union (EU) and FAO in collaboration with the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and other partners to tackle the detrimental social, economic...

The Transboundary Agro-ecosystem Management Project for the Kagera River Basin (Kagera TAMP) was approved by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in June 2009.

The Project’s goal is to adopt an integrated ecosystems approach for the management of land resources in the...