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How climate change impacts plant health - and why it matters for One Health
09/07/2025
Across the world, climate change is shifting the delicate balance that keeps plants – and everything they support - healthy. As temperatures rise, rains...
Plastic pollution and agrifood systems: Why One Health matters now more than ever
09/07/2025
Across fields and farms, plastics have become invisible threads woven into the fabric of modern agriculture. They wrap bales of silage, line irrigation...
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Sites in the Republic of Korea, Portugal and Tajikistan recognized as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
08/07/2025
An integrated mountain agropastoral system in Tajikistan has become the first Central Asian addition to the Globally...
SCALA programme strengthens biodiversity-friendly adaptation in three regions
07/07/2025
The Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture (SCALA) programme,...
Green Climate Fund approves a record $300 million for FAO-designed projects in Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia and the Sahel
01/07/2025
Port Moresby/Rome - The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved projects worth more than $300 million that will protect forests in Papua...
Advancing global dialogue on agri-plastics and trade-related policy solutions
01/07/2025
On 19 June 2025, FAO hosted a high-level hybrid briefing in Geneva titled “Cultivating Change: Agri-plastics and the Global Policy Response” to...
USD 42 million program launched for primary forests in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
27/06/2025
Chiang Mai, Thailand – Stretching from Bhutan to Papua New Guinea, the Indo-Malaya forest biome harbors one of the last major primary...
Indicators guide adaptation for agrifood systems transformation
24/06/2025
As climate records continue to topple year after year, one thing has become clear; agricultural communities are on the frontlines of climate change...
Beating plastic pollution in our food systems: FAO’s global action for World Environment Day 2025
05/06/2025
You don’t have to look far to see how plastic has worked its way into every corner of the agrifood system. Seedling trays, mulch films, irrigation tubing,...