The ZAEC Project is a transformative initiative that has made significant strides in reversing land degradation across southwestern Angola. The project has delivered impactful results, advancing Angola’s environmental sustainability goals and benefiting thousands of people in the target regions.

The Global Soil Doctors Programme launches in Turkmenistan to address the risks and challenges of salinity and erosion on agricultural lands.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has helped 22 countries unlock $68 million in financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to address biodiversity loss, groundwater management,  climate change, land degradation, and pollution.

The projects wer...

In the town of Poñen, Florida commune, initial actions were carried out as part of the strategic alliance between the GEF Landscape Restoration Project and the CONAF Communities Prepared for Forest Fires Program, focused on preventing fires through landscape restoration and integrated land manage...

The GEF Small Grants Program is a flagship initiative that over the past three decades has enabled civil society organizations to access funding and technical assistance for community action related to the environment and sustainable livelihoods. It specifically supports Indigenous Peoples and...

The GEF-8 Food Systems Integrated Program launches to support 32 countries in transforming their food systems

The GEF-8 Food Systems Integrated Program (FSIP), co-led by FAO and IFAD, will be officially launched during the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP16 on 5 December 2024, as part of the AgriFood Systems Day. This key event will highlight the vision and strategies of th...

FAO’s Forest Monitoring for Climate Action e-learning series has become a pioneer for inclusive capacity development, offering accessible and flexible learning opportunities

Effective communication is a cornerstone of successful project implementation, especially when addressing complex challenges like climate change and sustainable development. Visual storytelling, in particular, has become a powerful tool for engaging audiences, conveying key messages, and inspirin...

The National Forestry and Wildlife Service (SERFOR) of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, as the National Forestry and Wildlife Authority, has taken a significant step in promoting open access to the information it generates, collects, processes, and makes available to the pu...

It’s the crack of dawn. Magnolia Ordoñez leaves in a small boat along with her husband - the captain- and her colleagues— all women. Their task: to find and collect pianguas, a type of saltwater clam, that lives buried within the roots of mangrove trees in the Pacific region of Colombia.

The eyes of Aishagul Duganova, a 48-year-old mother of three, light up as she talks about her new greenhouse, which is bringing with it a new stability amidst her family's health problems and money troubles.

In the village of Koram, around 150 kilometers east of Almaty in Kazakhstan, Ai...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today presented the progress made in Latin America and the Caribbean regarding the targets set in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which outlines concrete goals for the protecti...

For more than a year, FAO has been facilitating and supporting the acce...

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) online facilitated course officially begins today, following an overwhelming international interest. A total of 2 520 participants from 141 countries have registered, signaling strong international interest to enhance skills in forest data collection, analysis and reporting.

The Bangladesh Forest Department, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC), has made a significant step toward forest data transparency by creating metadata, microdata, and supplementary resources from its National Forest Inventory (NFI) publicly available on the

Recent findings from the Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA), reveal the alarming impacts of climate change on the fisheries and aquaculture sector in Bangladesh.

As the International Community comes together for “The Triple COPs” this year to take stock of the progress and devise the next steps to arrest global warming to 1.5 degrees, we must prioritize making our agrifood systems part of the solution to realize the targets of the on-going “Decade of Action” and unlock lasting benefits for the environment and for the future of food. 

As part of ongoing efforts by the FAO and IFAD led GEF-8 Food Systems Integrated Program (FSIP) to transform food systems to be more sustainable, regenerative, inclusive, resilient, and pollution-free; representatives from eight countries across Asia and ...

In the heart of Egypt’s Western Desert, in Kharga Oasis, 700 kilometers from Cairo, a groundbreaking initiative is transforming the lives of local farmers with hearing and speech impairments. The GEF-funded project, focused on the sustainable management of Kharga Oasis agro-ecosystems, identified the unique challenges and potential of Khaled, a farmer field school participant who is deaf and mute. In response, the project established a specialized Farmer Field School designed to support farmers with similar impairments, empowering them to thrive in the region.