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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today welcomed a $10 million contribution from the United States of America to its COVID-19 response efforts and to help counter other challenges that threaten human, animal and environmental health, including future pandemics.

On Monday, December 20, 2021, FAO’s Dryland Forestry team hosted the webinar “Climate action after COP26: Gender responsiveness from local to global” as part of the Forestry Technical Network (FTN) series. The FTN is a network aiming to ensure a high standard of technical expertise through the promotion of innovative practices in FAO’s work with forestry by providing a platform to sponsor the exchange of ideas and experiences. With many thanks to FAO’s South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division as well as the FAO Forestry Division, this multistakeholder event took place with interpretation in 5 languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish,...

On 25 November 2021, FAO and the Government of Australia signed a new USD 1 009 710 (equal to AUD 1 300 000) agreement to support the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM), FAO’s main fund for channelling and managing less-earmarked resources to strengthen the achievement of the Organization’s Strategic Objectives.

In order to promote some of the work FAO has been undertaking in partnership with civil society organizations (CSOs), the CSO Partnerships team of the FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division has been putting together a small series of short publications, highlighting some of the successful collaborations of recent years. The second of the series features the partnership with the African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Resource Partners today held talks on the next phase of the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM), an increasingly effective facility that allows the United Nations agency to quickly direct funding where and when it’s most needed.

Le 23 novembre dernier 150 membres de l’Assemblée National et du Senat de la République du Congo ont participé à une formation sur les investissements agricoles responsables organisé par la FAO et l’Institut International de Développement Durable (IISD), sous l’égide de l’Alliance parlementaire congolaise pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle (APCSAN). Dans son discours d’ouverture de l’atelier, le Ministre de l’Agriculture, de l’Élevage et de la Pêche, Mr Paul Valentin Ngobo, a...

On 9 December 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) signed a memorandum of understanding during the High Level Launch of “The state of the world’s land and water resources for food and agriculture: Systems at breaking point (SOLAW 2021)”, with the aim to provide a formal framework for collaboration on research, capacity development and innovation for the sustainable management of land, water, forest...

In the first week of October 2021, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Tanzania, organized a workshop for Farmers and Forest Producers Organizations (FFPOs) in Tanzania. This workshop was part of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Forests cover just over 30 percent of the global land area, yet they provide habitat for the vast majority of known terrestrial plant and animal species. Unfortunately, forests, and the biodiversity they contain, continue to be threatened by illegal logging and land conversion for agricultural purposes.

Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Netherlands’ Wageningen University & Research (WUR) have enhanced their cooperation on innovative approaches to improve lives while safeguarding natural resources in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.  The new agreement covers a wide range of activities including improving agrifood economics; ensuring sustainable animal production and health, as well as sustainable fisheries and aquaculture; mitigating...