It is said that “nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” (Lao Tzu). Mangroves are one of nature’s true accomplishments. These tropical plants are adapted to loose, wet soils, salt water tides and provide a natural infrastructure — a safety net — for their surroundings. They reduce soil erosion...

Important strategic partnership aims to increase the production of the island’s world-class cocoa Saint Lucia’s cocoa beans are among the highest quality, being fine or flavour cocoa, and The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Saint Lucia Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development...

In Zimbabwe the seasons are changing, with irregular rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures, but the resilience of rural farmers against climate change is shining thanks to an innovative partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Government of Zimbabwe. With funding from the European Union (EU),...

Partner States of East African Community (EAC) - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda - are collaborating to promote sound life cycle pesticide management with FAO support through the EU funded programme on Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements – Phase 3 (“ACP MEAs 3”). The joint...

Mangroves are in decline globally, with mangrove forest cover decreasing by over 1 million hectares worldwide in the past two decades. But in the Caribbean things are different: in this part of the world, mangrove cover actually expanded over the period 2000 to 2015.  The ACP MEAs 3 team in...

Global Project Coordinator Kim-Anh Tempelman represented ACP MEAs 3 at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15), which took place in Montreal from 7-19 December 2022 What was the ACP MEAs 3 contribution to CBD COP15? Over the past couple of years...

For many smallholder farmers nestled in the green rolling hills of the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, rice production is the primary source of income and nutrition In the village of Kapunga in Tanzania's Mbarali district, smallholder farmers depend on rice cultivation as their number one source of income. Here the EU-funded FAO...

For St Lucia National Coordinator Leshan Monrose, growing up to become an environmental manager was her "default" setting. After graduating with a degree in Management Studies, she obtained a Master's in Natural Resource and Environmental Management with a specialization in climate changeat the University of the West Indies. She says...

On 13 April 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), pesticide stakeholders, and government policymakers convened in Dodoma for a high-level meeting to present the findings of a risk assessment on Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) conducted by the Tanzania Pesticide Research Institute (TPRI), now known as...

Participants at a global seminar on strengthening regulations to protect pollinators from pesticides organized by the European Union-funded, FAO-led ACP MEAs 3 programme identified priorities for action to safeguard vital pollinators such as bees, without whom the world's food production systems would be severely affected. The priorities for action in five...