Through a conversation with the FAO-CBIT Global Forest project team, this webinar will provide an overview of the Project’s objectives and activities with a focus on improving forest data collection and analyzing. It will also offer an in-depth exploration of the Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) and Food and Agriculture Microdata (FAM) platforms

In the quiet village of Tean Kam Thbong in Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province, a small group of farmers is rewriting their future. Together, they form the Rumduol Tean Kam Agricultural Cooperative (AC), a close-knit community of 97 members (38 women). What began as a small initiative in 2009 has grown into a movement of hope and resilience, supported by the Promoting Climate-resilient Livelihoods in Rice-based Communities in the Tonle Sap Region (PCRL) project and its partners. 

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.

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...

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...

تركز المبادرة الممّولة من مرفق البيئة العالمية على تعزيز المحاصيل المستدامة والقادرة على الصمود والسلع والثروة الحيوانية ونظم تربية الأحياء المائية في 32 بلدًا

تركز المبادرة الممّولة من مرفق البيئة العالمية على تعزيز المحاصيل المستدامة والقادرة على الصمود والسلع والثروة الحيوانية ونظم تربية الأحياء المائية في 32 بلدًا

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...

عند بزوغ الفجر، تغادر السيدة Magnolia Ordoñez على متن قارب صغير يقوده زوجها، القبطان، برفقة زميلاتها وجميعهن من النساء. وتتمثل مهمتهن في العثور على المحار من صنف pianguas وجمعه، وهو نوع من محار المياه المالحة الذي يعيش مغمورًا داخل جذور أشجار المانغروف في منطقة المحيط الهادئ في كولومبيا.

شارك ممثلون من سبع دول ساحلية مطلة على البحر الأحمر في اجتماع في مدينة جدة للمصادقة على مشروع مرفق البيئة العالمية "تعزيز الإدارة المستدامة لمصايد الأسماك في النظام البيئي البحري الكبير في البحر الأحمر" أو ما يعرف اختصاراً بمشروع "أسماك البحر الأحمر". وتمثل هذه المبادرة التاريخية، التي تقودها منظ...

يلمع بريق في عيني السيدة Aishagul Duganova، وهي أم لثلاثة أطفال تبلغ من العمر 48 عامًا، وهي تتحدث عن دفيئتها الجديدة التي جلبت لأسرتها مصدر استقرار جديد في خضم المشاكل الصحية والمالية التي تعانيها.

ففي قرية كورام، التي تبعد نحو 150 كيلومترًا إلى الشرق من مدينة ألماتي في كازاخستان، تأثّر...

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 accession process in Tajikistan unde...

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