This report aims to support countries in the necessary transition toward healthier, more sustainable diets by integrating biodiversity in food-based interventions to support nutrition and health.
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This State of Knowledge Review synthesises the available information on the inter-linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and epidemic infectious diseases such as the Ebola virus; and the connection between biodiversity...
Even before the pandemic, there was a push to transform food systems for better nutritional, health, and environmental outcomes. In 2019, several publications argued for major changes in agricultural...
This article reviews how food system activities contribute to climate change and how dietary changes affect food systems. It shows that while emissions from food...
Key messages
Food-related decisions, from individual up to policy level, are very relevant to climate change;
These decisions could make significant, ‘gigaton-scale’ differences to...
The FAO elearning Academy together with Future Food Institute, organized the second edition of the 24-hour Global Digital Marathon for Sustainability entitled: “Food for Earth”, in 2021. The event...
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Sorghum is among the few crops that cope with climate warming and attendant water problems.
Sorghum can adapt to various conditions and is particularly resistant...
Levels of hunger in 2021 remain alarmingly high, with close to 193 million people acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries/territories, according...
The brief focuses on the achievements of the following three global biodiversity targets from the CBD post-2020 framework (CBD/WG2020/3/3), by 2030 and 2050:
Enhance the integrity of all ecosystems, “with an...
In this chapter, we introduce the origins and history of agroecology, outlining its emergence as a science and its longstanding history as a traditional practice throughout the world. We provide a brief...