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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,...

New data shows that crops like wheat, coffee, beans and cassava could lose half of the best land for growing them by 2100
05/06/2025

Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has upgraded its innovative ABC-Map geospatial...

Khilamaya is now a vocal and active participant in the farmer field school
A voice of resilience
03/06/2025

Meet Khilamaya Nepali, a determined farmer from Nepal’s Churia region who is transforming her future through sustainable agriculture. Despite living...

Agrifood systems in the voluntary carbon market: Growth with integrity can provide critical finance
29/05/2025

Agrifood systems play an important role in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), accounting for more than 10 percent of projects. But with only 1 percent...

Making investments more effective and impactful: the critical role of environmental and social risk management across multilateral institutions
28/05/2025

Who benefits from new income opportunities, how and where intervention is delivered, and how environmental and social risks are managed – these are...