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This article explores the potential of carbon farming in fighting climate change with a focus on the role that Earth Observation can play in providing the necessary evidence for the construction of efficient carbon...

With climate change impacts already felt in the world’s drylands, there is an urgent need for action, at various scales and initiated by different stakeholders, to ensure the sustainability of food production...

The Global Framework for Action to Cope with Water Scarcity in Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change – in short, the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) - is a Partnership...

Our very existence depends on water – water to drink and water to grow food. Agriculture relies on freshwater from rivers, lakes and aquifers. Rainfed agriculture and much...

The Panel at its 49th Session in May 2019 adopted Decision IPCC-XLIX-7 that the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) should produce a Methodology...

In a rapidly changing world, agriculture is at the heart of sustainable development. The risks that the world faces in the final decade to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals will be many...

The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 presents new estimates on the pervasiveness of water scarcity in irrigated agriculture and of water shortages in rainfed agriculture, as well as on the number of people affected...

The European Commission document on ‘European Research and Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security’ sets out how research and innovation policy is currently contributing to food and nutrition security...

This Staff Working Document (SWD) accompanies the third “Implementing EU food and nutrition security policy commitments”.The third report highlights the progress the EU and its Member...

This is the third report highlighting the progress the EU and its Member States have achieved towards implementing their common policy on food security. This report is accompanied by Annexes...