In the battle against climate change, forests stand as stalwart allies. These green giants play a pivotal role in sequestering carbon dioxide, regulating the climate, enhancing biodiversity, and supporting livelihoods. However, the fate of forests worldwide hangs in a ...

Some Pacific Island Countries and Territories run the risk of a significant dent to their revenues as climate change causes shifts in tuna abundance and distribution, research from the Common Oceans Program suggests.

Rising water temperatures, expanding low oxygen zones, ocean acidificat...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) this week helped 28 countries to unlock $70 million in financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to address urban sustainability, groundwater management, biodiversity loss, climate change and land degradation.

Since 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has been carrying out a long-term initiative in three provinces of Afghanistan (Khost, Laghman, and Nuristan) with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project’s title is self-explanatory: “Combating ...

Land holds the past, present and future of humanity. Everything from nutritious food and thriving ecosystems to agricultural heritage and livelihoods rely on healthy and productive land. Yet every year, an average of 100 million hectares of land are degraded through unsustainable agriculture, ...

On 30 April 2024, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United N...

The Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM) programme was officially launched in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2024. It consists of six projects in Ecuador, India, Kenya, Laos, the Philippines, Uruguay, and Vietnam. The five-year initiative aims to catalyze investments to minimize the u...

As part of an ongoing pesticide management and disposal project from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in Central Asia and Türkiye, two international events were held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. 

Afghanistan has been traditionally mountainous, agricultural and grassland country. The rangelands, (defined as land with the main vegetation containing pasture, herbs, shrubs, wildlife, soils, minerals, and low-growing trees), are a source of livelihood for rural communities. It provides firewoo...

Rice may be the staple food in the Philippines, but its production is vulnerable to weather changes. Climate change has significantly affected farmers: as a crop that is heavily dependent on water, its yields drop significantly in case of droughts, which in turn lead to lower incomes for farmers....

At 53, Conchita Calingayan was determined to find a way to earn more money. Being from Hungduan – one of the towns that host the famed Philippine Rice Terraces in Ifugao Province – farmers like her earn limited income because they could only produce a certain volume of rice from their small plots...

For over 20 years, Ajibu Kalole of Ngatala village in...

41 alternatives to chemical pesticides have been popularized and promoted in West Africa and Sahel, within the framework of the regional project on Elimination of Obsolete Pesticides including Persistent Organic Pollutants and Strengthening Pesticide Management coordinated by FAO with the financi...

During an online event on 8 May 2024, the Common Oceans Deep-sea fisheries project of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) unveiled a

Two Pacific small island states are set to...

From bees to earthworms, from coral reefs to rain forests - biodiversity helps to ensure our food diversity and must be key to transforming our food production systems. On International Day for Biological Diversity, FAO launched its updated action plan for Mainstreaming Biodiversity Across Agricultural Sectors and prepared to embark on several new biodiversity-related initiatives. 

Walk through farmlands in the rugged, hilly terrain of parts of Mexico and you’ll see maize plants grown widely spaced apart with pole beans climbing up them and the large leaves of squash covering the soil alongside edible herbs. These are all part of a farming system known as a milpa. It is ...

The Global Farmer Field School Platform from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is comprised of vast networks active at all scales, all with the intention of b...

In November 2023, Antigua and Barbuda's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Barbuda Affairs (MoA) organized a groundbreaking one-week training session in Saint Johns (Antigua and Barbuda) for their agricultural extension and analytical services officers. The focus of the training was to imp...

23 April, Rome - The...