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FAO e-learning course on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
15/06/2023
The 'National Greenhouse Gas Inventories' curriculum aims to strengthen institutional and technical capacities in national entities, to enable them...
FAO Director-General meets UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and President-Designate of COP28
13/06/2023
During his visit to the United Arab Emirates, the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, along with a number of FAO officials, held a meeting today with His...
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Reshaping agriculture in Africa to end child labour
12/06/2023
How FAO supports the elimination of child labour and helps children have better lives
Child labourers are the unseen victims of climate change
12/06/2023
A new report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has put a spotlight for the first time on the...
World Oceans Day must be Humans Day: FAO Fisheries chief
08/06/2023
The ocean is key to global food security, the livelihoods of over 600 million people, and essential to transforming agrifood systems, according to Manuel...
World Ocean Day 2023: A healthy ocean for a cooler planet
07/06/2023
Take a deep breath. Now ponder this: the big, blue ocean that covers 71 percent of the Earth produces over 50 percent of our oxygen. The ocean...
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Breaking the plastic cycle in agriculture
05/06/2023
We need to talk about plastics. Plastic products have become a convenient tool in many areas of life, and agriculture is no different. Plastics are...
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Agriculture on the agenda during recent negotiations on proposed new global plastic treaty
02/06/2023
The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) to develop an international legally binding instrument on...
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Connecting the dots in forest monitoring in Paraguay
29/05/2023
Equipped with FAO remote sensing tools, local experts are studying deforestation dynamics