Within the context of the steady increase of natural hazard-induced disasters and in particular, the rapidly growing climate related risks, the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) is annually marked worldwide on 13 October to reiterate the shared commitments [...]

Register your interest by 6 Sept 2021! Do you have recent experience implementing, monitoring or evaluating the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus? Join ALNAP and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 22 September 2021 for an interactive peer learning [...]

  09:30 – 11:00 EDT | 13:30 – 15:00 UTC The latest IPCC report makes it abundantly clear that incremental change is plainly inadequate given the urgency and depth of the climate crisis. Transformational change that is relevant to the magnitude of [...]

This year, World Water Week will be held as a full-scale digital event on 23-27 August. Join the FAO Land and Water team for an intensive week of learning and collaboration on the overall theme of 'Building Resilience Faster'. [...]

The short-term consequences of climate change and its impending risk has catastrophic and wide-ranging implications on society. While the world is preparing to mitigate the effects of climate change and adapt for a safer future, the twenty-first century faced the [...]