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15 May 2018
FAO participates in “The one with Water” panel discussion at the Africa Climate-Smart Agriculture summit in Kenya
Nairobi - Leaders, regional governments, NGOs, Civil Societies, aid agencies, UN and donor organisations, and the private sector gathered in Nairobi...
25 January 2018
Last year, Ashmita Thapa’s husband left their hometown in southern Nepal to find work in Saudi Arabia. He had been working as a farmer and used to be able to grow enough food for the family.
But now, Ashmita explains, the...
10 November 2017
New digital resource is a guide to effectively transforming agriculture and food systems. To help steer our food systems in a sustainable direction, FAO has produced a new sourcebook for how to implement "climate-smart" approaches to agriculture, launched today at the...
10 November 2017
The Agriculture Action Day took place on 10 November 2017, in Bonn, Germany, on the sidelines of the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
It...
This side event will take place from 13.30 to 14.30 on 26th April during the 156th session of the FAO Council. Countries are now embarking on the implementation of their Nationally Determined Contributions. What does this mean for the agriculture...