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With less than a decade left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global community faces a critical juncture to transform food systems to be healthier, safer, more sustainable, more efficient, and more equitable. The UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 generated global attention on food systems and set the stage for...

The FAO–GEF partnership focuses its work on five focal areas: biodiversity, climate change, land degradation, international waters and chemicals, moving beyond simply conserving natural resources, creating the conditions for the sustainable use of these resources. Over the years, the partnership has grown as the portfolio has increased to 22 projects in...

The FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia is implementing activities on seed systems under the regional programme “Regional strategy on seed system”. In the framework of the regional strategy and the regional TCP project “Creating enabling environments for enhanced climate resilience in agriculture”, aiming to enhance seed systems in selected...

Digital technologies are yielding new growth in the food and agriculture sector and in rural areas. Connectivity, mobile adoption, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies are opening doors to new opportunities, enhancing the performance of the sector and increasing working conditions. However, they also pose certain risks, such as of...

In Europe and Central Asia, as well as globally, FAO is aiming to strengthen its role in promoting green agriculture, which includes the proper management of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystem services with high recycling rates and low external inputs for building sustainable and resilient agroecosystems capable of     tackling current...