Latest news and updates from the partnership
Join the Global Tuna RFMO Management Strategy Evaluation Workshop online
16/01/2026
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), in the framework of the GEF-funded FAO Common Oceans Tuna Project, is convening this three- day workshop to adv...
The GEF-8 Clean and Healthy Ocean Integrated Program Coordinates Action from Source to Sea
29/12/2025
In early December 2025, partners from around the world gathered in Panama City to advance a shared goal: reducing pollution from land that harms ocean and coastal ecosystems. Co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CAF – Developmen...
New FAO-GEF projects for sustainable, resilient agriculture
17/12/2025
The GEF has approved eight projects led by the FAO worth nearly $60 million designed to help seven countries improve their management of agricultural landscapes, promote climate-friendly and biodiversity-positive livestock production, and restore forest, coastal, and marine ecosystems.
Uzbekistan will host Eighth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility
17/11/2025
The last sprint toward 2030, the GEF-9 cycle will implementing the agenda for the world’s family of funds for the environment.
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems recognized in Chile
13/11/2025
With GEF support, two traditional agricultural systems rooted in the ancestral knowledge and practices of Indigenous Peoples in the northern Andean highlands and the southern mountain ranges of Chile have been recognized as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) by the Food and ...
Locally led adaptation strengthens resilience and livelihoods of fishers and fish farmers in Timor-Leste
10/11/2025
In the Small Island Developing State of Timor-Leste, where 42 percent of the population live below the national poverty line, communities that rely on aquatic resources face a harsh reality.
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GEF supports FAO's first land degradation neutrality strategy in the Republic of Moldova
28/10/2025
Over the past 60 years, the area of eroded land has increased 1.8 times in Moldova, mainly due to cultivation on sloping lands without the application of soil conservation practices. In response, FAO's land degradation neutrality strategy aims at improving soil health, enhancing sustainability and supporting long-term agricultural resilience in Moldova's districts of Orhei, Rezina and Șoldănești.
Clean and Healthy Ocean Integrated Program featured in flagship UNECE publication on Source-to-Sea Management
16/10/2025
The publication aims to strengthen understanding of source-to-sea management and the linkages between lands, rivers, lakes, aquifers, coasts, and the ocean. It promotes an integrated approach to natural resource management and supports the health and resilience of transboundary ecosystems.
Better food systems for a better future
16/10/2025
The Global Environment Facility’s Food Systems Integrated Program, led by FAO and IFAD, channels $282 million in GEF financing and about $2 billion in co-financing to help countries transform food systems through shifting value chains, business models, finance, policies, institutions, and landscape management.
The Restoration Initiative named a World Restoration Flagship
15/10/2025
The United Nations (UN) has named the GEF, IUCN, FAO, and UNEP supported initiative as one of the four new World Restoration Flagships under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Recognizing global efforts to heal degraded ecosystems, boost community incomes and support food security, the announcement was made during a high-level side event at the World Food Forum in Rome, ahead of World Food Day.
FAO recognizes GEF for driving progress on forests
15/10/2025
The Forestry Division honoured GEF among 24 distinguished nominees at the FAO Global Technical Recognition Ceremony, held on 15 October 2025 at FAO headquarters in Rome.
Supporting the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty
25/09/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to support the implementation of a landmark United Nations (UN) treaty aimed at conserving and sustainably using marine biological diversity in waters beyond national jurisdiction. The agreement will come into force in Janua...
An island of chocolate gold
19/09/2025
Morning light spills across Praia das Conchas Roça on the island of Sao Tome, as children walk hand in hand to school with their backpacks. Four of them are the children of Camila Varela De Carvalho, a 32-year-old cocoa farmer. Another four are her nephews, all of whom she is raising.
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Sowing seeds, reaping resilience
08/09/2025
Cambodia’s wet season is becoming unpredictable, but now improved flood-resistant seeds are helping Seuy Phok and other rice farmers have more reliable harvests.
Common Oceans Program will aid new treaty
18/08/2025
The forthcoming ratification by 60 countries of the BBNJ (Biodiversity ...
Healing hands and healing plants of Tajikistan
31/07/2025
When people in Gulrez, a small village in eastern Tajikistan, feel unwell, they don’t always travel to the nearest town for medical care. Instead, they often turn to Dzhamolov Mahmadali, a local healer in their community, who offers natural treatment using plants from the surrounding mountains.
Reviving Iraq’s rangelands and marshlands
25/07/2025
Southern Iraq’s marshland, desert and rangeland ecosystems have long supported farming and grazing communities with water, food, grazing lands, and income for generations. By promoting sustainable land management through policy change and enhanced practices, FAO and the GEF are helping to mitigate the impacts of soil salinization and climate on these ecosystems.
Forest Data Without Borders: Latin America and the Caribbean Strengthen Their Commitment to Forest Transparency
07/07/2025
To advance the transparency of forest data and strengthen the...
GEF Food Systems Integrated Program advances sustainable livestock transformation in Africa
02/07/2025
Representatives from national governments, development partners, research institutions, and youth networks from across Africa gathered in Nairobi for the meeting of the Food Systems Integrated Program (FSIP). Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the FSIP focuses on transforming global...
Mechanization drives climate-smart agriculture and gender equality in Zimbabwe’s Drylands
30/06/2025
The Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program is sharing soil conservation farming techniques, mechanized tools that reduce the labor burden, and access to quality, drought-tolerant seeds and tree seedlings for climate resilience and gender equality.