UN agency sounds alarm: Dwindling agrobiodiversity ‘severe threat’ to food security

To help ensure the most-consumed foods don’t disappear in the face of the climate crisis, farmers must cultivate crops able to resist environmental shocks and other stresses, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) highlighted in a new set of conservation guidelines published on Thursday.

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FROM THE FIELD: The UN’s mission to transform agriculture, for people and planet

09 Jun 2020

How can agriculture become better able to resist major international shocks such as climate change, and health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

Uganda looks online for answers to COVID economic crisis

15 Aug 2020

From banking, to food delivery, and taxi bookings, Uganda is rapidly becoming accustomed to many of the online tools that are commonplace in developed economies, and which don’t rely on face-to-face interactions. The UN is supporting this shift, as a way to help developing economies recover from the global economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

New UN agency guidelines aim to sustain forest benefits for future generations

10 May 2018

New guidelines designed to give poor and isolated communities more of a say in how tropical forests are used and preserved around the world were published on Thursday, by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).