‘Green should be the colour of the future’: Global bodies launch campaign to protect forests
Joint Call to Action for Forests to highlight need for increased action, political commitment to implement forest solutions in pursuit of SDGs
Global Forest Resource Assessment: Tropical forests the size of Europe lost in first 20 years of this century
Deforestation slowed by 30% in 2010-18; cropland, oil palm plantation and grazing biggest drivers of deforestation
Leveraging flexible investment instruments for impact
Flexible investment in the right balance can cut costs and create synergies for SDGs
African countries join hands to transform livelihoods
An Africa-led financial mechanism started in 2013 has achieved remarkable results by assisting African nations to address critical agricultural …
'Achieving zero hunger requires agriculture to be sustainable, climate smart'
FAO India representative Tomio Shichiri talks to Down To Earth on whether current government policies are effective to achieve the Zero Hunger …
13 new agricultural heritage landscapes designated by FAO
The new sites are in China, Japan, Egypt, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and Sri Lanka
FAO charts action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance in food and agriculture
The FAO Action Plan is timely and draws attention towards the terrestrial, aquatic animal and agriculture sectors
Future of food: World won’t be able to feed itself without wider systemic change, says FAO
Management of poverty and inequalities; geopolitical instability; scarcity; degradation of resources; and climate change will determine future …
Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Why water is important in the AMR debate
Access to safe water is one of the prerequisites for maintaining sound health and environment in a community and is also a responsibility of …
India in danger zone as locusts breed 400 times than usual
Attacks by desert locusts are threatening India, Iran and Pakistan, as well as the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea region
Nobel Laureates pitch in for a hunger-and-violence-free world
Four Nobel Laureates will advise the FAO on ways to strengthen the link between peace and food security to promote sustainable development
Peru’s small-scale farmers need help to recover from damage triggered by coastal El Niño
About 7,000 farmers need help to restore their capacity to produce food, FAO states
The world needs to feed 9 bln by 2050 and digitisation can help
Food and Agriculture Organization report favours information and communication technologies to improve farmers' access to timely data
Reducing food waste vital for India's food security
It is estimated that saving one-fourth of the food currently lost or wasted globally would be enough to feed 870 million hungry people in the world
300 million sub-Saharan Africans could go hungry due to Fall Armyworm
A pest that feeds on sorghum, millet and maize will cause severe destruction to crops if left unchecked, warns the Food and Agriculture Organization
Reaping benefits of integrated farming in Zambia
A woman farmer in Chongwe district of Zambia lifted herself out of poverty through integrated and diversified farming
Urgent funds required to help 385,000 people in Nigeria
Three consecutive planting seasons have been lost due to conflicts in northeastern part of the country
Project to turn Olympic food waste into meals for poor
At present, several initiatives are being planned to combat the trend of food wastage. One such initiative is the “Reffetto-Rio” project
FAO: Closing gender gap in agri-food systems can boost global economy by $1 trillion
Tackling gender inequality can reduce world hunger and reinforce resilience to shocks like climate change and COVID-19 pandemic
Lack of indigenous people’s participation big barrier to mainstreaming of biodiversity: FAO
Some 15 per cent of global forests are managed as community resources by indigenous peoples and local communities
State of the World’s Forests 2022: 10% of total forest area on Earth lost in 30 years
It stated that annual global consumption of natural resources is likely to increase to 190 billion tonnes in 2060 from 92 billion tonnes in 2017
Every 6th person under water stress: FAO
The annual amount of available freshwater resources per person had declined by more than 20 per cent in the past two decades, UN body says
Climate change to make pests hungrier, cause more crop loss
Warmer climate will increase the metabolic rate of insects making them devour more crops
Your food might be growing in contaminated soil
Soil pollution poses a major risk to human health by impairing plant metabolism and making crops unsafe for consumption
Revegetation on Loess Plateau putting pressure on water resources
Expansion of vegetation cover in areas marked by limited water availability creates “conflicting demands for water between the ecosystem …
