Rural transformation

Ten years after the Paris Agreement, agriculture has finally begun to claim its place at the center of global climate action; yet progress remains uneven.

The Kenya–Sweden Bioeconomy Business and Innovation Fair is a two-day event scheduled for December 8–9, 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya to connect Swedish and Kenyan innovators, businesses, and...

Africa’s agricultural sector holds immense potential, but progress is constrained by fragmented definitions of sustainability, under-investment, and the complex pressures shaping farming systems across the continent.

The International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026 aims to raise awareness of the role of women in agrifood systems and the challenges they face, including land tenure, financial and technical...

10th Agroforestry Symposium opened with powerful calls to scale climate-resilient farming, celebrating ten years of farmer–researcher collaboration and agroforestry’s impact on livelihoods, food security and land restoration.

Free, online learning resource created by the Agripreneurship Alliance to empower entrepreneurs and the organisations that support them

In rural Uganda, farmers learn to protect their pigs from African swine fever through short, drama-style stories delivered on mobile phones.

Exploring practical approaches to sustainable implementation of these programmes with a focus on long-term financing, robust partnerships, and scalable country programmes.

The FAO Liaison Office in Geneva, in collaboration with the FAO Right to Food Team of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP), invites you to an hybrid briefing session on...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will host the opening ceremony of the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) 2026 at FAO headquarters in Rome on...