From 2017 to 2023, the United Nations Rome-based agencies (RBAs) – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP) – implemented a joint initiative funded [...]

  Sand and dust storms (SDS) are a common occurrence in the world's drylands, characterized by strong, turbulent winds that erode small particles from soil surfaces with little or no vegetation cover. Given that a significant portion of major agricultural activities, [...]

Despite its vast natural resources, fertile land and favourable rainfal which constitute a conducive climate for two agricultural cycles for various crops within a year, a large proportion of the populations living in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in [...]

Uganda hosts over 1.5 million refugees, primarily displaced due to violence and civil unrest in neighbouring South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Around 95 percent live in settlements across eleven refugee-hosting districts, with 80 percent living below [...]

          21 July 2022 | 12:15  – 13:45  (CEST)                                                               COAG SIDE EVENT HIGH-LEVEL PANEL DISCUSSION FAO Science and Innovation Strategy and its relevance for the Committee on Agriculture (COAG)                                                                HYBRID EVENT SHEIKH ZAYED CENTRE AND ZOOM Please register here   Following the endorsement of [...]