A new FAO-led, Green Climate Fund readiness project was signed on 26 April 2023 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The project will support the low-emission and climate-resilient development of Georgia's agriculture sector. Growth of the agrifood sector is a priority for the Government, but that development is predicted to increase emissions by about 40 percent... 

Picture patches of tropical, dry forest separated by agricultural land stretched across the surface of six countries at the heart of the American continent. This is the Central American Dry Corridor, a 1 600-kilometre-long expanse through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, which is home to 11.5 million rural people...

Forests and trees play a crucial role in addressing climate change and achieving sustainable development by absorbing greenhouse gases and creating more sustainable landscapes. In Kyrgyzstan, more than 100 officials and experts attended a workshop to launch a project aimed at promoting a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy...

Did you know that the agriculture sector accounts for 72 percent of global freshwater withdrawals, making it the world’s largest water user by far? Currently, over 95 percent of our food is produced on land, and we will need 35 percent more water resources by 2050 if we are to increase global production of food, fiber and feed by 50 percent compared to 2012 levels...

Access to water is critical for family farmers in the Central American Dry Corridor, but climate change and environmental degradation pose a serious threat to their livelihoods. Celina del Carmen Alfaro is among the 1.3 million beneficiaries of the Reclima project that focuses on restoring degraded ecosystems for improved water and food security...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) decision to approve funding for three new projects in Bolivia, Cambodia and the Philippines, valued at $145.3 million. The national initiatives, supported by FAO, are focused on fostering climate change adaptation and ...

Empowering women in natural resource management is an integral part of the Building a Resilient Churia Region in Nepal (BRCRN) project, led by FAO with the financial support of the Green Climate Fund. One of the ways used to address gender inequality in the context of climate change is through art...

Rosa Amparo Díaz Cruz is a 42-year-old Salvadorean women working with her community to protect ecosystems and defend livelihoods. Like many women in her community, she grows vegetables, but water scarcity is a growing problem in the climate-stressed region. To improve crop production, Rosa and women from the AMUDES group...

Healthy soils act as the largest carbon sink on land with the potential to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and cool the planet. But unsustainable soil management practices lead to the loss of soil organic carbon and biodiversity, nutrient imbalance, and soil erosion, all of which threaten crop production...

Don't miss these highlights from our two side events on how FAO works with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and key partners in the public and private sector to unlock climate finance for more sustainable and equitable agrifood systems...