The International Day of Clean Air for blue skies on 7 September is focusing this year on ‘The Air We Share’, the transboundary nature of air pollution and the need for collective accountability and action. Sand and Dust Storms is a growing transboundary phenomena that impacts air quality and several...

Rome/Stockholm -An innovative water management tool will expand to become available around the world thanks to a contribution from the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Netherlands to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO has developed and used data and information presented in a portal, known as...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Agrometeorology, Hydrology and Meteorology Regional Center (AGRHYMET), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS) and SERVIR West Africa have launched today the new publication West African Land Cover Reference System...

The Stockholm World Water Week is a leading conference on global water issues that explores new ways of managing water to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges: from food security and health to agriculture, technology, biodiversity, and climate. Water is a fundamental resource enabling food and nutrition security. Although nutritious food is a...

The new FAO publication "Guidelines for the calculation of the agriculture water use efficiency for global reporting" is now available. These guidelines are intended to assist countries in understanding and computing the agronomic parameters involved in the calculation of the agricultural component of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 6.4.1 on...

The Webinar “Understanding the basics of environmental Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) for national action" is part of the “Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment Webinar Series” produced by the Quadripartite of FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH, to address health threats at the human-animal-plant-environment interface and to promote health and sustainable development. This webinar series...