Latest news and updates from the partnership
Learning opportunities for all: Forest monitoring for climate action
03/12/2024
FAO’s Forest Monitoring for Climate Action e-learning series has become a pioneer for inclusive capacity development, offering accessible and flexible learning opportunities
Communication4Change in Cambodia: Strengthening Capacities to Promote Climate-Resilient Agriculture and Fisheries
02/12/2024
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...
Peru promotes open access to forestry and wildlife information
27/11/2024
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...
Green businesses for biodiversity and climate action
21/11/2024
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.
From hardship to harvest in Kazakhstan
05/11/2024
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...
Advancing biodiversity goals in Latin America and the Caribbean
30/10/2024
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...
Tajikistan joins Rotterdam Convention for a better environment
30/10/2024
For more than a year, FAO has been facilitating and supporting the acce...
CBIT Forest: Over 2 500 participants will advance Forest Monitoring capacities
29/10/2024
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.
Bangladesh Strengthens Commitment to Forest Data Transparency and Sustainable Development
29/10/2024
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
Building Resilience in Fisheries and Aquaculture: Addressing Climate Change Risks in Bangladesh
28/10/2024
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.
Transforming global agrifood systems for a better environment… today and tomorrow
28/10/2024
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.
Uniting for sustainable and resilient rice production under the GEF-8 Food Systems Integrated Program
17/10/2024
Representatives from eight countries across Asia and Africa came together in Hanoi, Viet Nam to discuss a unified approach to advance sustainable rice production and jointly drive FSIP project development.
The Sound of Silence: Transforming the Lives of Deaf and Mute Farmers in Egypt’s Desert
14/10/2024
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.
Strengthening Evaluations within the GEF Partnership
11/10/2024
The GEF Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO), in partnership with the FAO-GEF Unit and the FAO Office of Evaluation, held its first-ever, partnership-wide Evaluation workshop in the GEF’s three-decade history. The workshop focused on advancing shared evaluation priorities, exchanging best practices, and aligning efforts to better capture impact from GEF-funded projects and programs.
Communities in Botswana embrace green value chains to combat land degradation
07/10/2024
Land degradation is a pressing ...
Sustainable Cities: Greening Zimbabwe's urban landscapes
07/10/2024
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - In a move to address the pressing challenges of urbanization and climate change, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife, and members of the Bulawayo local authority, convened a crucial technical i...
CACILM-2 addresses climate change and land degradation across Central Asia and Türkiye
03/10/2024
The FAO-GEF regional project, "Integrated Natural Resources Management in Drought-prone and Salinity-Affected Agricultural Production Landscapes in Central Asia and Turkey" (CACILM-2), has been successfully implemented. The final workshop,held in Bukhara, gathered representatives from the Food an...
Sustainable Cities Integrated Programme launches in Zimbabwe
05/09/2024
With 55 percent of the world’s population residing in urban areas, it is estimated that by 2050, urban population is expected to rise to 68 percent, mainly in low-income countries. Local councils are finding it increasingly challenging to ensure urban and peri-urban populations have access to inc...
Dryland landscapes and livelihoods take center stage
19/08/2024
Over one hundred cross-sectoral stakeholders including land users, government officials, technical partners and project implementers from ten different countries across dryland ecoregions gathered in the Warm Heart of Africa (Malawi) on 29 July for the second regional stakeholders workshop for Southern Africa under the GEF-7 Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable Landscapes (DSL-IP).
Enhancing efforts for productive and resilient dryland landscapes in Southern Africa
29/07/2024
Blantyre, Malawi – Government officials, experts and landscape managers from across Southern Africa met today for a week of discussions on the challenges and solutions for drylands in the region organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and pa...