Event
Food Systems
On 6 December, the FAO will host the opening ceremony of the International Year of Millets (IYM) to raise awareness around IYM and call attention to the benefits of promoting the sustainable...
Event
Presentation of several online platforms that visualise and connect FLR projects with possible investors.
Event
Globally, 80% of the world's extreme poor reside in rural regions, and 76% of them engage in agriculture, primarily subsistence farming. They also heavily rely on and work with caring for the bulk...
Event
Food Systems
The Webinar will share results of an FAO Project on Life Cycle Assessment started in May 2021, and will present a state-of-the-art review carried out by an international team of thirty...
Event
A great opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of the benefits that pulses provide to agrifood systems and the environment.
Blog Post
Food and agriculture were at the centre stage at the COP28 negotiations where FAO’s Global Roadmap was presented, setting a strategy for achieving SDG2 while remaining within the 1.5C threshold....
News Story
Food Systems
More than half of the world’s seven billion people live in urban areas – a proportion that is set to increase to 69% by 2050. Rapid urbanization will increase the demand for food security, nutritious diets and food safety for urban populations.
Slides
This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.
News Story
What we do now to protect our farmers will have long term implications for food security in the years to come.
Publication
Forests have, historically, had a very important role in food security in upland areas of South and Southeast Asia – both as sources of wild food and as sites for grazing, planting food trees...