Partnerships are key to advancing the restoration of the world’s degraded land, according to an annual report by The Restoration Initiative issued today.

Forestry in its various forms – protection, restoration, and enhanced sustainable use – can build natural assets, absorb vast quantities of GHGs, conserve biodiversity, protect water catchments, and supply the world with materials. It doesn’t hold all the answers, and it has its own challenges, but it will be a big part of the solution if we are to head off disaster.

A high-level dialogue led by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) will outline urgent actions needed to scale up efforts to halt deforestation and degradation at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).

FAO is seeking to strengthen its contribution to the broad-based alliances for change that are critically needed to transform current unequal and unsustainable development pathways – by becoming a Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) charter member. 

At an event at COP26 in Glasgow, a new $345 million, seven-year program, The Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR), will launch projects in 27 countries, targeting the production and value chains of eight key commodities: beef, cocoa, coffee, maize, palm oil, rice, soy, and wheat. 

FAO has installed a prototype rooftop farm at its Rome headquarters to highlight how innovative technology can help increase access to healthy diets from sustainable agri-food systems.

Experts, policymakers, business leaders and national delegates will gather at Foresta2021 and European Forest Week , 22-25 November 2021, to discuss strategic solutions for the future of forests.

Boosting the capacity of forests and agrosilvopastoral systems in drylands to alleviate poverty and contribute to food security.

Between the first and the second decades of this century, the rate at which mangroves were lost fell by almost a quarter (23 percent) and these forests are regenerating faster than expected. But climate change is increasingly posing a threat to this ecosystem and the world needs more concrete eff...

Roma. La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) acogió con agrado la financiación adicional de 25 millones de euros de la Unión Europea (UE) destinada a ampliar e incrementar el 

Often hear people talk about the ‘bioeconomy’ but you don’t know what it is? Take a seat and relax, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to Bioeconomy 101!

En el primer estudio de este tipo que se ha realizado, la FAO, con la colaboración de expertos de todo el mundo, reunió abundante información sobre la extensión de los manglares en el mundo y entrevió las causas tanto de la pérdida como de la expansión de los manglares.

Roma - El mundo está logrando avances para poner fin a la pérdida de manglares, según un nuevo informe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO).

Ethical fashion has enormous potential to change lives for the better.

A new toolkit published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today aims to help connect national forest and farm producer organizations to climate change finance globally.

Women-led cooperatives pave a path to independence and benefit rural communities.

Paris/Rome - Emphasizing the interconnectedness of environmental, animal and human health, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu reiterated FAO's commitment to continue supporting the mainstreaming of biodiversity across agriculture and food sectors also by the Hand in Hand Initiative.

Paris/Rome - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, today appealed for an urgent scale-up of Africa's Great Green Wall initiative to restore degraded land, create jobs and address climate change.

Los productos sostenibles ofrecen ingresos prometedores y una alternativa viable a la tala de árboles.

La FAO y la Agencia Francesa de Desarrollo apoyarán el desarrollo de reservas comunitarias en el Área de Conservación Transfronteriza Kavango-Zambezi de Botswana y Namibia.