Latest news and updates from the partnership
We are bringing nature back
13/11/2023
The GEF-funded REDESAR project has helped many beneficiaries like Auzileide by increasing awareness about sustainable cultivation and in turn redefining their relationship with the environment.
Helping Ghazni’s Livestock Survive the Harsh Winter
12/11/2023
"In the past, I used to sell my animals at a very low price at the beginning of winter, because they might otherwise die because of diseases and malnutrition. This year, improvements made to my stable make me optimistic that they will survive. My family can continue benefitting from dairy product...
Solar Passive Houses reduce pressure on pastureland during winter by creating a warm indoor climate
11/10/2023
FAO's GEF-funded project in Afghanistan's Bamyan province is implementing community-driven approaches to sustainable land management to restore degraded rangelands. The project recently supported construction of Passive Solar Houses (PSH) to provide alternative livelihood options to the community, decrease land degradation, and increase rangeland productivity.
“The most important thing fishers can do to preserve ocean resources is to recover their traditions.”
13/09/2023
José Augusto López Zambrano is a third-generation fisher from the Ecuadorian port city of Manta. “I have dedicated myself to this activity all my life,” says José, who is president of the local Manta Pole-and-Line Fishers Association. “The most important thing fishers can do to preserve...
“Almost all the people of this village now understand the benefits of Sasi"
13/09/2023
Since 2017, Yustus and his community have been implementing Sasi, a traditional fishery co-management system in Indonesia. It’s a set of rules mutually agreed upon by Indigenous peoples, religious leaders and the government for managing natural resources in their area. They include biological res...
Greenhouses for women’s cooperative in Türkiye
06/09/2023
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 “Land Degradation Neutra...
FAO, CFI, Common Oceans at launch of GEF Global Biodiversity Framework Fund
01/09/2023
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...
Transforming food systems for a healthy planet and healthy people
01/09/2023
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 ...
Efforts to safeguard biodiversity receive welcome boost
25/08/2023
The newly established fund will facilitate financing for developing countries — which are often the most biodiverse — to enhance their ability to protect, restore and ensure the sustainable use of natural resources, as established through The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted by 196 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at COP15 in December 2022.
FAO @ 7th GEF Assembly
21/08/2023
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...
Water reservoirs bounce green life back
10/08/2023
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...
The Coastal Fisheries Initiative: Teaching communities to fish sustainably
24/07/2023
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 that.
In Ecuador, learning about Land Degradation Neutrality in practice
21/07/2023
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...
FAO and partner agencies tasked with leading $115 million Clean and Healthy Oceans Program
29/06/2023
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...
Cerró proyecto de FAO, MINEC, comunidad indígena y GEF con buenas prácticas a replicar
28/06/2023
“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”
26 FAO-GEF projects to transform agrifood systems into solutions for environmental challenges
27/06/2023
The projects total $174.7 million in GEF funding and leverage $1.2 billion in co-financing. With these new projects, FAO’s partnership with the GEF will have helped countries access over $1.4 billion in financing and leverage over $9 billion in co-financing to transform agrifood systems into solu...
New USD 42.4 million programme set to boost primary forest conservation in Asia’s Indo-Malaya subregion
27/06/2023
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. ...
Turning banana waste into sustainable textiles in Pakistan
27/06/2023
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
FAO set to support implementation of landmark treaty for conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity on high seas
21/06/2023
FAO is set to support its Members in implementing the accord, often referred to as the “High Seas Treaty”, on safeguarding Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
Forests for people: traveling to the remotest province to visit forestation efforts in Afghanistan
09/06/2023
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 Global E...