FAO and the GEF

Partnering for sustainable agri-food systems and the environment

Latest news and updates from the partnership

06/12/2024
The Global Environment Facility-funded initiative will promote sustainable and resilient crops, commodities, livestock and aquaculture systems across 32 countries.
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03/12/2024
The GEF-8 Food Systems Integrated Program (FSIP), co-led by FAO and IFAD, will be officially launched during the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP16 on 5 December 2024, as part of the AgriFood Systems Day. This key event will highlight the vision and strategies of th...
03/12/2024
FAO’s Forest Monitoring for Climate Action e-learning series has become a pioneer for inclusive capacity development, offering accessible and flexible learning opportunities
Capacity BuildingCapacity DevelopmentForest MonitoringForestry
28/11/2024
Effective communication is a cornerstone of successful project implementation, especially when addressing complex challenges like climate change and sustainable development. Visual storytelling, in particular, has become a powerful tool for engaging audiences, conveying key messages, and inspirin...
Capacity BuildingClimate ChangeClimate Change AdaptationClimate Smart AgricultureFisheriesLDCFLDCF
27/11/2024

The National Forestry and Wildlife Service (SERFOR) of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, as the National Forestry and Wildlife Authority, has taken a significant step in promoting open access to the information it generates, collects, processes, and makes available to the pu...

21/11/2024

It’s the crack of dawn. Magnolia Ordoñez leaves in a small boat along with her husband - the captain- and her colleagues— all women. Their task: to find and collect pianguas, a type of saltwater clam, that lives buried within the roots of mangrove trees in the Pacific region of Colombia.

BiodiversityBiodiversity ConservationClimate ChangeClimate Change AdaptationClimate Change MitigationCocoaEcosystem RestorationLatin America and the CaribbeanMangrovesRestorationSustainable Value Chains
12/11/2024
Representatives from seven Red Sea coastal countries convened in Jeddah for a validation meeting on the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project titled, "Promoting Sustainable Fisheries Management in the Red Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (RedSeaFish)." Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization (...
Fish StocksFisheriesInternational WatersNear EastSustainable Fisheries
05/11/2024

The eyes of Aishagul Duganova, a 48-year-old mother of three, light up as she talks about her new greenhouse, which is bringing with it a new stability amidst her family's health problems and money troubles.

In the village of Koram, around 150 kilometers east of Almaty in Kazakhstan, Ai...

Climate Smart AgricultureEurope and Central AsiaLand DegradationLivelihoodsWomen
30/10/2024
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today presented the progress made in Latin America and the Caribbean regarding the targets set in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which outlines concrete goals for the protecti...
AgrobiodiversityBiodiversityBiodiversityBiodiversity ConservationGlobal Biodiversity FrameworkLatin America and the CaribbeanSustainable Use of Biodiversity
30/10/2024

For more than a year, FAO has been facilitating and supporting the acce...

Chemicals and WasteEurope and Central AsiaPesticides
29/10/2024
The National Forest Inventory (NFI) online facilitated course officially begins today, following an overwhelming international interest. A total of 2 520 participants from 141 countries have registered, signaling strong international interest to enhance skills in forest data collection, analysis and reporting.
Capacity BuildingCBITClimate ChangeClimate Change MitigationForest MonitoringForestry
29/10/2024
The Bangladesh Forest Department, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC), has made a significant step toward forest data transparency by creating metadata, microdata, and supplementary resources from its National Forest Inventory (NFI) publicly available on the
Asia PacificCapacity BuildingClimate Change MitigationEnhanced Transparency FrameworkForest Monitoring
28/10/2024
Recent findings from the Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA), reveal the alarming impacts of climate change on the fisheries and aquaculture sector in Bangladesh.
AquacultureAsia PacificClimate ChangeClimate Change AdaptationFisheriesLDCFLDCFLeast Developed Countries Fund
28/10/2024
As the International Community comes together for “The Triple COPs” this year to take stock of the progress and devise the next steps to arrest global warming to 1.5 degrees, we must prioritize making our agrifood systems part of the solution to realize the targets of the on-going “Decade of Action” and unlock lasting benefits for the environment and for the future of food. 
BiodiversitySustainable UseBiodiversityClimate ChangeLand Degradation
17/10/2024
Representatives from eight countries across Asia and Africa came together in Hanoi, Viet Nam to discuss a unified approach to advance sustainable rice production and jointly drive FSIP project development. 
14/10/2024
In the heart of Egypt’s Western Desert, in Kharga Oasis, 700 kilometers from Cairo, a groundbreaking initiative is transforming the lives of local farmers with hearing and speech impairments. The GEF-funded project, focused on the sustainable management of Kharga Oasis agro-ecosystems, identified the unique challenges and potential of Khaled, a farmer field school participant who is deaf and mute. In response, the project established a specialized Farmer Field School designed to support farmers with similar impairments, empowering them to thrive in the region.
11/10/2024
The GEF Independent Evaluation Office (GEF IEO), in partnership with the FAO-GEF Unit and the FAO Office of Evaluation, held its first-ever, partnership-wide Evaluation workshop in the GEF’s three-decade history. The workshop focused on advancing shared evaluation priorities, exchanging best practices, and aligning efforts to better capture impact from GEF-funded projects and programs. 
11/10/2024
Around the world, efforts to create and improve National Forest Inventories (NFIs) have demonstrated significant impact by leveraging a variety of data collection methods and tools to achieve forestry and climate action results. To showcase a more detailed overview of NFI’s capabilities and case studies, FAO in collaboration with the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has recently published the brochure "Grounded in Data – Informing Climate Action and Reporting with National Forest Inventories."
07/10/2024

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - In a move to address the pressing challenges of urbanization and climate change, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife, and members of the Bulawayo local authority, convened a crucial technical i...

AfricaAgroforestryLandscape RestorationSouthern AfricaSustainable CitiesUrbanWetlands
07/10/2024

Land degradation is a pressing ...
AfricaCapacity BuildingClimate ChangeDryland Sustainable LandscapesDrylandsLand DegradationResilienceSouthern AfricaSustainable Value Chains