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...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA) presentaron hoy un nuevo programa, cuyo objetivo es redoblar los esfuerzos para transformar los sistemas agroalimentarios mundiales —desde la explotación agríc...

La iniciativa financiada por el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial promoverá cultivos, productos básicos, ganadería y sistemas de acuicultura sostenibles y resilientes en 32 países.

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...

Apenas amanece cuando Magnolia Ordoñez zarpa en una pequeña embarcación junto a su esposo, el capitán, y sus compañeras, todas mujeres. Su misión: encontrar y recolectar pianguas, una especie de molusco que habita entre las raíces de los manglares en el Pacífico colombiano.

Recolectar l...

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 (...

A Aishagul Duganova, de 48 años, madre de tres hijos, se le iluminan los ojos cuando habla de su nuevo invernadero, que aporta una estabilidad antes inexistente en medio de los problemas de salud y dinero de su familia.

En la aldea de Koram, a unos 150 kilómetros al este de Almaty, en K...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura presentó hoy los avances logrados en América Latina y el Caribe respecto de las metas establecidas en el Marco Mundial Kunming-Montreal de Biodiversidad de la Convención de Diversidad Biológica, que plantea metas concret...

For more than a year, FAO has been facilitating and supporting the accession process in Tajikistan unde...

El curso facilitado en línea sobre el Inventario Forestal Nacional (IFN) comienza oficialmente hoy tras un interés internacional abrumador. Un total de 2 520 participantes de 141 países se han registrado, lo que refleja un fuerte interés internacional por mejorar las habilidades en la recopilación, análisis y presentación de informes de datos forestales. 

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. 

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.