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Hunger levels in Africa have increased in the past two years, due to lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing conflicts, the climate crisis and economic shocks, but the continent’s...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations today held an official launch here of its Green Cities Initiative, which is already being piloted in Cameroon, with seven...

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an innovative multi-partner initiative for improving food security and nutrition analysis and decision-making. By using the IPC classification and analytical approach...

The Digital Villages Initiative (DVI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a corporate programme aiming to combat hunger, poverty and inequality by fostering digital rural...

There is real momentum in Eastern and Southern Africa to develop National Agroecology Strategies (NAS) and policies to support agroecological transitions in these regions.

While sustainability is often equated with the climate crisis, decarbonization or the energy transition, in Laos, a least developing country where 58% of the labour force works in agriculture, it...

In the countryside of the southern African nation of Zambia, a group of farmers are reimagining agriculture for the 21st century.

This video looks at agroforestry in the Sahel region and its benefits.

One part ancient practices, one part worker justice, a new-old way of farming is adapting agriculture for an uncertain world.

This video highlights the benefits of agroforestry in the Sahel and explains how trees and shrubs can improve soil health and increase crop yields.