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This book encompasses a broad range of natural resource sectors, with discrete chapters on water, land, forestry, fisheries, mining, petroleum and agriculture. Given this broad range of areas...

This Legal Brief reviews the concept of sustainability and systems thinking in legislative efforts, as well as relevant guiding principles. It then reviews a number of legal tools and mechanisms...

This policy note first examines global trends in the trade of food and agricultural products. Next, it shows how trade and well-functioning markets can address food...

Nature is staging a comeback: UN recognizes seven World Restoration Flagships UNEP Executive Director announces seven new UN World Restoration Flagships

Agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific can be strengthened by tapping on agrifood-tourism linkages. When tourism and agrifood systems interact, both synergies and competition appear. Agriculture...

This Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (GPA) was developed by FAO at the request of the members of the Commission on Genetic...

The conservation, sustainable use and development of aquatic genetic resources (AqGR) is critical to the future supply of fish. The State of the World’s Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is the first...

This year's theme of the FAO SIF will be “ Science and Innovation for Climate Action”, aligned with the overarching World Food Forum (WFF) theme “Agrifood systems...

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI – 2023) New estimates indicate hunger is no longer on the rise at the global level but is still far above...

Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed €25 million in additional funding from the European Union (EU) to extend and scale up the Sustainable...