Rome - la FAO et Slow Food International viennent d’inaugurer un nouveau partenariat destiné à aider les communautés montagnardes et insulaires à développer des économies plus résilientes et à créer les conditions d’une amélioration des moyens d’existence des populations locales.

Hanoi, Viet Nam – Small-scale forest and farm producers are building climate resilience in their communities and, with the right support, can make a difference at scale to maintaining forest and farm landscapes in the face of climate change. The message came this week at th...

Aspen – Delegates from 97 mountain countries around the world endorsed the Aspen Declaration today during the closing ceremony of the Sixth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership in Aspen, United States of America.

As the global population rises, we are projected to need up to 50% more food by 2050 than we needed in 2012. We face a huge challenge to feed the world while at the same time protecting our forests from agricultural expansion, which drives almost 90% of deforestation globally.

Rome – Family farmers and small-scale producers can solve many of the global issues related to restoring ecosystems and feeding a growing population, but more investment is needed to strengthen their knowledge and skills through extension services such as farmer field schoo...

Rome – À l’occasion d’un colloque en ligne qu’elle organisait en collaboration avec le Forum mondial sur les paysages et dont le thème était 

More than 300 representatives from governments, international organizations, leading research bodies and the private sector are gathering for the Plenary of the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) at FAO headquarters this week to boost global monitoring of forests and further action on climate change.

Today is World Bee Day. Find out how the Forest and Farm Facility and partners have been supporting Maasai communities in Tanzania to generate additional income from beekeeping - and regenerate local forests in the process.

Representatives of eight countries and partners contributing to the Drylands Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP), Regional Cluster in Southern Africa will meet in Har...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Programme have launched a Global Fire Management Hub that aims to strengthen countries’ capacities to implement integrated fire management.

A new advocacy strategy to scale up dryland women’s participation in climate change policy discussions was officially validated by WeCaN members at the initiative’s first Global Gathering today.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today published a new study on strengthening rural employment opportunities for young people across Uganda's forestry value chain.

En Tanzanie, la FAO et ses partenaires créent des clubs scolaires dédiés aux arbres.

Rome – À l’occasion de l’ouverture de la vingt-sixième session du Comité des forêts, le Directeur général de l’Organisati...

Rome – Investir dans la jeunesse, c’est investir dans un avenir viable, a déclaré aujourd’hui le Directeur général de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO), M. Qu Dongyu, lors d’une manifestation sur le thème «Assurer l’avenir des f...

Rome – Overall consumption of primary processed wood products is expected to grow 37 percent by 2050 in a business-as-usual scenario, a report published today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said. 

Rome – Selon un nouveau rapport publié aujourd’hui de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) et de ses partenaires, la protection des animaux, des végétaux, des champignons et des microorganismes que l’on trouve dans les forêts doit ...

Rome – Some 75 percent of the global population living outside urban areas are within 1 km of a forest, according to new research by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that aims to improve our understanding of human-forest interactions.

Rome – The integration of the natural resource sector into the global effort to reduce and mitigate the risk of emerging infectious diseases is essential, according to a new policy brief launched on One Health Day by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unit...

Âgé de 52 ans, marié et père de sept enfants, Dandakoye a été témoin de changements qui ont eu des effets dévastateurs sur les terres qui entourent Sakey Kouara Tegui, le village où il vit. Située dans l’ouest du Niger, cette localité est nichée dans le bassin versant du plateau de Gorou Tay...