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FAO partners with the Adaptation Fund to help vulnerable countries fight the impact of climate change
Projects will build the resilience of rural communities affected by degraded ecosystems and increased water scarcity FAO has been accredited as an implementing partner of…
Here’s how COVID-19 creates food waste mountains that threaten the environment
Mountains of produce, including eggs, milk and onions, are going to waste as the COVID-19 pandemic shutters restaurants, restricts transport, limits what workers are able…
FAO Director-General calls for new approach to stop soil loss on World Day to Combat Desertification and and Drought 2020
A new approach is needed to combat soil degradation, desertification and drought if we are to meet the growing demand for food to feed the…
Towards innovative, conflict-sensitive and human rights-based approaches to forest monitoring
The Governments of Myanmar and Finland today launched a trailblazing project designed to allow for monitoring of forests in a manner that is sensitive to…
Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK, says report
The biggest dairy companies in the world have the same combined greenhouse gas emissions as the UK, the sixth biggest economy in the world, according…
Overfishing on the rise as global consumption climbs: U.N. agency
More than a third of the fish stocks around the world are being overfished and the problem is particularly acute in developing countries, the United…
Maailmasta hävisi 30 vuodessa Libyan pinta-alan verran metsää – kato kiihtynyt Afrikassa
Maailmanlaajuinen metsäkato ja siitä johtuva luonnon monimuotoisuuden köyhtyminen jatkuvat huolestuttavaa vauhtia, kertoo YK:n alaisen FAO:n Maailman metsien tila 2020 -raportti. Metsäkato on kuitenkin hidastunut huomattavasti…
Ensure city poor and vulnerable are fed, amidst lockdown hunger risk, urges UN
The UN food agency, FAO, warns that hunger and fatalities could rise significantly in urban areas, without measures to ensure that poor and vulnerable residents…
COVID-19: Using economic stimulus to reduce the long-term hunger impact
Beyond the COVID-19 health emergency, a recession looms, and countries ought to take measures now to soften the longer-term impacts on hunger and food insecurity,…
Latin America to see sharp increase in hunger, poverty -FAO
Hunger and poverty are set to spike in Latin America and the Caribbean as the impact of the novel coronavirus ravages the region´s economies and…
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