La FAO y el FMAM

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Últimas noticias y actualizaciones de la asociación

06/12/2024
La iniciativa financiada por el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial promoverá cultivos, productos básicos, ganadería y sistemas de acuicultura sostenibles y resilientes en 32 países.
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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
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...
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

Apenas amanece cuando Magnolia Ordoñez zarpa en una pequeña embarcación junto a su esposo, el capitán, y sus compañeras, todas mujeres. Su misión: encontrar y recolectar pianguas, una especie de molusco que habita entre las raíces de los manglares en el Pacífico colombiano.

Recolectar l...

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 (...
05/11/2024

A Aishagul Duganova, de 48 años, madre de tres hijos, se le iluminan los ojos cuando habla de su nuevo invernadero, que aporta una estabilidad antes inexistente en medio de los problemas de salud y dinero de su familia.

En la aldea de Koram, a unos 150 kilómetros al este de Almaty, en K...

30/10/2024
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura presentó hoy los avances logrados en América Latina y el Caribe respecto de las metas establecidas en el Marco Mundial Kunming-Montreal de Biodiversidad de la Convención de Diversidad Biológica, que plantea metas concret...
30/10/2024

For more than a year, FAO has been facilitating and supporting the accession process in Tajikistan unde...

29/10/2024
El curso facilitado en línea sobre el Inventario Forestal Nacional (IFN) comienza oficialmente hoy tras un interés internacional abrumador. Un total de 2 520 participantes de 141 países se han registrado, lo que refleja un fuerte interés internacional por mejorar las habilidades en la recopilación, análisis y presentación de informes de datos forestales. 
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
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.
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. 
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...

07/10/2024

Land degradation is a pressing issue in Botswana, with nearly half of the country&rs...