In the town of Sivrihisar in Eskisehir province, members of the “Asma Yaprağı Women’s Cooperative” have begun cultivating tomatoes in a new 528-metre greenhouse provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The initiative forms part of the &ldquo...

Rome/Vancouver, 30 August - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed the launch of a Global Biodiversity Framework Fund at the 7th GEF Assembly...

In July 2023, the United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2) convened representatives from over 180 countries to review progress on their commitments and reaffirm their determination to transform food systems. UNFSS+2 underlined the importance of addressing the challenges ...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) ha acogido con satisfacción la presentación del 

Environmental leaders from 185 countries will gather at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada for the Seventh Assembly of the Global Environment Facility from August 22-26. Building on recent diplomatic breakthroughs on biodiversity loss, toxic chemicals, and the high seas, the GEF...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and in collaboration with the communities in Asmar and Manogi districts, is supporting the rural societies by constructing 73 water reservoirs with different capacities to cu...

Teaching a man – or woman – to fish may once have been enough to feed them for life. Now they must learn how to fish sustainably. Since 2017, the Global Environment Facility-funded Coastal Fisheries Initiative has been hard at work on three continents and on multiple tracks to do just...

To foster adoption of Land Degradation Neutrality as a policy priority, and to facilitate the exchange of information about challenges and lessons learned in this area, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the GEF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Water and Ecol...

 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), along with four partner agencies, has been tasked with leading the Clean and Healthy Oceans Integrated Program, a source-to-sea initiative that will direct up to $115 million in grants to help countries curb land-based pollu...

“Este ha sido uno de los proyectos más importantes que ha llevado a cabo la FAO en Venezuela. Existe un antes y un después con él. En los 7 años que duró, contó con un aporte de USD 8 millones, con lo que se obtuvieron grandes logros”

Los proyectos suman 174,7 millones de USD de financiación del FMAM y 1 200 millones de USD de cofinanciación. Con estos nuevos proyectos, la asociación de la FAO con el FMAM habrá ayudado a los países a acceder a más de 1 400 millones de USD en financiación y a movilizar más de 9 000 millones de ...

The Indo-Malaya Critical Forest Biomes Integrated Programme will improve management of nearly 3.2 million hectares of protected areas, restore 8 500 hectares of ecosystems, improve practices on 7.1 million hectares of landscapes, and mitigate about 190 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. ...

In a major endorsement of FAO’s bioeconomy work, the GEF has approved a new project in Pakistan that will turn waste from the banana value chain into sustainable bio-based textiles. The project, announced in Brasilia during the

La FAO apoyará a sus Miembros en la aplicación de este acuerdo, a menudo llamado “Tratado de alta mar”, sobre la salvaguardia de la biodiversidad de l...

In between rolling green hills in Badghis are pistachio sites – both manmade by FAO that has just started to germinate, and further down, as seen through the binoculars, the centuries-old forest that is protected by FAO through the Forest Management Association (FMA) with funds from the Gl...

Las comunidades del Perú trabajan con las autoridades locales para gestionar los ecosistemas marinos únicos de los que dependen el medio ambiente y sus medios de vida. La Iniciativa Pesquerías Costeras de la FAO, financiada por el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial, ha desarrollado la capacidad...

La bioeconomía sostenible y circular —basada en el uso responsable y eficiente de recursos biológicos renovables como plantas, algas, hongos y bacterias— ofrece soluciones prometedoras para mejorar la sostenibilidad de los plásticos utilizados en la agricultura.

Any new legally binding instrument on plastic pollution will need to take account of how plastics are used in different sub-sectors and what options there are to reduce their negative impacts. For FAO, as a specialized agency of the United Nations leading global discussions on food and agricultur...

The Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP), led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and financed with support from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), organized its first Regional Workshop in Southern Africa on 22-26 May, bringing together ove...

A side event at the 2023 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement Review Conference showcased positive contributions of the Common Oceans Program to more effective and sustainable fisheries management