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Healthy soils for a healthy people and planet: FAO calls for reversal of soil degradation

28/01/2022

FAO’s Director-General addresses the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin

Youth for Climate-Resilient Agriculture Competition : Apply before 5th February

25/01/2022

Are you involved in a youth-led project working on green and climate-resilient agriculture? Are you interested in receiving mentoring...

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Bringing degraded African land back to life

21/01/2022

How combining new technology and traditional knowledge harvests rain and restores land

The climate crisis in focus as Giorgio Parisi joins FAO’s Nobel Laureates Alliance

21/01/2022

The 2021 physics prize winner delivers a lecture on “Science: the headlight on our future”

Sustainable energy is vital to lifting people out of poverty and hunger, FAO Director-General tells UN-Energy meeting

11/01/2022

Rome – United Nations agencies and their partners should work closer together to make agrifood production more sustainable...

Agreed conclusions on the six topics of the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture roadmap

29/12/2021

At COP26, governments found significant agreement on the last three topics of the initial Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) roadmap,...

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Four actions to improve the state of our land, soil and water

09/12/2021

Protecting our land, soil and water resources for the future of our food

Plastics in agrifood systems: The good, the bad and the ugly

07/12/2021

Ocean litter has been making the headlines, but a new report by FAO suggests that plastic pollution is also pervasive in our agricultural soils

What went on a COP26? Check out our latest newsletter to find out more

02/12/2021

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26 was held in Glasgow, Scotland between 31 October and 12 November. COP...