A fully grown cow produces anywhere between 70kg and 120kg of methane gas, depending on variables like its diet. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 23 times more potent than CO2 when it comes to its effects on the climate. There are 1.5 billion heads of cattle on the […]

The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today approved an FAO project designed to transform Pakistan’s Indus River Basin by improving agriculture and water management to make this vital food-producing region more resilient to climate change. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has provided FAO with a grant of nearly […]

To mitigate the effects of climate change, we can do a simple thing: plant trees. This is hardly a new idea, but a team of scientists at ETH Zurich has calculated just how much tree cover we would need to capture enough atmospheric CO2. The answer, they say, is 4.4 […]

Jul 9, 2019 – 09:00 am EDT to Jul 18, 2019 – 06:00 pm EDT Conference Globalization Climate Change Nutrition Health Environment and Natural Resources Meeting the SDGs High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) IFPRI is participating in the 2019 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), which is the main United Nations […]

Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger has slowed in Asia and the Pacific, despite strong economic advances, and highlighting the need for concerted policy actions to tackle the increasingly complex nature of challenges ahead, representatives of FAO Member Countries heard during […]

Qu Dongyu of China was elected Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today. Qu Dongyu received a total of 108 votes out of 191 cast, constituting a majority in the first round. The election took place during the 41st session of the FAO Conference […]