GEF-funded project in Iran helped Fatemeh discover her potential for business.

GEF-FAO fishery project makes remarkable progress in protecting international waters’ biodiversity

Celebrating encouraging results from the FAO-GEF Common Oceans ABNJ Program

FAO and partners work to restore mangroves through the global Coastal Fisheries Initiative

A total of 100 agricultural producers representing the communes belonging to the SIPAN Network in the Alto Andina and Cordillera Pehuenche Macrozones attended the First National Meeting of the SIPAN Network, "Promoting Our Agricultural Heritage", co-organ

FAO's Life and Nature project is empowering women by improving female farmer’s decision-making and enhancing the equal participation, representation, and rights of women.

The 57th Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council and the 27th Least Development Countries Fund (LDCF) Council have approved a funding of USD 61.5 million and USD 13.6 million respectively to support FAO’s work.

Rice may be the staple food in the Philippines, but its production is vulnerable to weather changes. Climate change has significantly affected farmers: as a crop that is heavily dependent on water, its yields drop significantly in case of droughts, which in turn lead to lower incomes for farmers....

FAO and GEF team up in new project to make forest data more transparent, accessible and available

New funding boosts efforts to combat deforestation, desertification, climate change and strengthen food systems

Based on information provided by 91 countries and 27 international organizations, analysis of global literature and datasets, and contributions from over 175 authors and reviewers, The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture assesses bi

The Common Oceans ABNJ Tuna Project completes a five-year programme of high seas shark assessments

Accra, Ghana, 23rd January 2019. The Common Oceans ABNJ Tuna Project's electronic monitoring pilot in Ghana has come to an end.

Funded by GEF, FAO is implementing a five-year project on “Sustainable cropland and forest management in priority agro-ecosystems of Myanmar” aiming to build the capacity of farming and forestry stakeholders to mitigate climate change and improve land co

12–15 December 2018, Siem Reap, Cambodia: Forum to accelerate efforts to wipe out root causes of climate change impact upon the livelihoods of Cambodia’s rural poor.

Under FAO's Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded "Life and Nature" project, a joint force of national and sub-national government officials, local authorities, watershed management committees, community members, forestry officers, monks, rangers, teac

Rome, Italy, 5-7 December 2018. Five years from the start of the Common Oceans ABNJ Program, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), some of the partners, donors and beneficiaries gat

Productores ganaderos serán parte de la elaboración de un protocolo que permitirá evaluar la degradación de pastizales en Uruguay y tomar decisiones que promuevan el manejo sostenible de este recurso clave.

Forty participants from countries spanning three continents, international organizations and non-governmental organizations met last week in Guayaquil to launch the GEF Coastal Fisheries Initiative (CFI) at a Global Inception Meeting for the GEF-financed

This week, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is hosting the signature event of the International Waters (IW) Portfolio: the 9th GEF International Waters Conference (IWC9) – an interactive training and learning event focused on this specific focal area