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Biodiversity

Invasive alien species are a major threat to biodiversity, playing a key role in 60 per cent of global plant and animal extinctions. Too often ignored until it is too late, invasive alien species are a significant…

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SDGs

The 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global promise to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet. As the world is off track in achieving the Goals,…

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Insurance

A new facility aims to make the African agriculture sector more resilient to adverse effects of climate change such as flooding and drought. Moreover, it seeks to extend credit insurance to investment portfolios related…

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Food systems

The 13th Africa Food Systems Forum provided a platform to reflect on the coordinated large-scale action by the continent’s leading thinkers, policymakers, and innovators to explore the latest breakthroughs and best…

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Climate change

At the Africa Climate Summit participants discussed the increasing exposure to climate change and its associated costs, both globally and particularly in Africa. At the Summit, African leaders endorsed the “Nairobi…

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Biodiversity

A new fund aims to mobilise and accelerate investment in the conservation and sustainability of wild species and ecosystems.

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Water

World Water Week 2023 closed on the 24th August with a forward-looking prompt: what’s next? During the conference, innovative solutions to water challenges lay in focus. In 2024, the spotlight for the event will be on…

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Poverty reduction

Poverty reduction is achievable, the latest data of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) demonstrates. However, the lack of comprehensive data over the COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges in assessing immediate…

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Climate change

A new Action Plan, based on three pillars, supports the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022-2031, focusing on agrifood system transformation.

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Rice production

On July 20th, India announced that it would restrict exports of non-basmati rice to calm domestic rice prices that had risen more than 30 per cent since October 2022. The ban would halt overseas sales of the grain with…

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Food systems

The latest figures paint a grim picture of the state of food security in the world. Now, the Food Systems Summit+2 Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2) has looked at progress made during the last two years to create inclusive,…

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Employment

A new partnership will promote decent work and productive employment across food systems with the aim of tackling poverty and inequality in the sector.

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Bioenergy

The state of current global land regulation is inadequate for controlling land-use-change emissions from modern biofuels. If the regulatory gap remains, bioenergy will not be part of the solution to mitigate climate…

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Food security

The consequences of wars, armed conflicts, climate change and price rises have worsened the food situation for countless people over the last few years. It is all the more important not to relent in combating global…

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Deforestation

Tropical primary forest loss worsened in 2022, despite international commitments to end deforestation, new data shows.

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