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...

 L’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) et le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA) ont lancé aujourd’hui un nouveau programme qui vise intensifier les efforts de transformation des systèmes agroalimentaires mondiaux, du stade de la product...

L’initiative financée par le Fonds pour l’environnement mondial promouvra des systèmes de cultures, de produits de base, d’élevage et d’aquaculture durables et résilients dans 32 pays.

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...

Les premières lueurs du jour se devinent et Magnolia Ordoñez est déjà dans une petite embarcation avec son mari, le capitaine, et ses collègues, toutes des femmes. Leur tâche? Trouver et récolter des pianguas, vénéridés d’eau salée enfouis entre les racines des palétuviers le long du littoral ...

Representatives from seven Red Sea coastal countries convened in Jeddah for a validation meeting on the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project titled, "Promoting Sustainable Fisheries Management in the Red Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (RedSeaFish)." Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization (...

Le regard d’Aishagul Duganova, 48 ans et mère de trois enfants, s’illumine à l’évocation de la serre qu’elle vient d’avoir et qui lui apporte une nouvelle stabilité face aux problèmes de santé et d’argent de sa famille.

Aishagul habite dans le village de Koram, à quelque 150 kilomètres ...

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...

Le cours tutoré en ligne de l’Inventaire Forestier National (IFN) débute aujourd’hui, témoignant d’un intérêt international impressionnant. Un total de 2 520 participants issus de 141 pays se sont inscrits, démontrant un fort intérêt pour le renforcement des compétences en collecte, analyse et notification des données forestières. 

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. 

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.