The Coastal Fisheries Initiative (CFI) is a global effort to preserve marine resources, making sure fishing is done in a way that keeps the environment healthy. To date, the CFI has helped save 700 hectares of mangrove forests in Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. In Indonesia, they're teaching people how to fish responsibly in areas that cover over 1.6 million square kilometers of ocean. We can only bring about such transformation if we work together.

“Onboard observers enable you to know what’s happening in a fishery and what the impact on the ecosystem is going to be.” Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the project promotes responsible deep-sea fisheries management and biodiversity conservation in the high seas.

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 manage...

Through a conversation with the FAO-CBIT Global Forest project team, this webinar will provide an overview of the Project’s objectives and activities with a focus on improving forest data collection and analyzing. It will also offer an in-depth exploration of the Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) and Food and Agriculture Microdata (FAM) platforms

In the quiet village of Tean Kam Thbong in Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province, a small group of farmers is rewriting their future. Together, they form the Rumduol Tean Kam Agricultural Cooperative (AC), a close-knit community of 97 members (38 women). What began as a small initiative in 2009 has grown into a movement of hope and resilience, supported by the Promoting Climate-resilient Livelihoods in Rice-based Communities in the Tonle Sap Region (PCRL) project and its partners. 

The Global Soil Doctors Programme launches in Turkmenistan to address the risks and challenges of salinity and erosion on agricultural lands.

The ZAEC Project is a transformative initiative that has made significant strides in reversing land degradation across southwestern Angola. The project has delivered impactful results, advancing Angola’s environmental sustainability goals and benefiting thousands of people in the target regions.

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.

Farmer clubs were trained on aquaculture best management practices and horticultural production. “From now on, I will be harvesting a different type of fruit or crop every month. I started on a small scale because of doubts, but now I am seeing potential from the crops I have and the future is bright and scaling up is the way am going.”

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.

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...

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

FAO’s Forest Monitoring for Climate Action e-learning series has become a pioneer for inclusive capacity development, offering accessible and flexible learning opportunities

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...

The FAO-GEF regional project, "Integrated Natural Resources Management in Drought-prone and Salinity-Affected Agricultural Production Landscapes in Central Asia and Turkey" (CACILM-2), has been successfully implemented. The final workshop,held in Bukhara, gathered representatives from the Food an...

The GEF-8 Food Systems Integrated Program launches to support 32 countries in transforming their food systems

The Global Environment Facility-funded initiative will promote sustainable and resilient crops, commodities, livestock and aquaculture systems across 32 countries.

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...

It’s the crack of dawn. Magnolia Ordoñez leaves in a small boat along with her husband - the captain- and her colleagues— all women. Their task: to find and collect pianguas, a type of saltwater clam, that lives buried within the roots of mangrove trees in the Pacific region of Colombia.

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...