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The publication investigates best practices in food sustainability across the world. It uses the three pillars—sustainable agriculture, nutritional challenges, and food loss and waste—of the Food Sustainability Index (FSI), developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit with the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, as a framework. Now in its third iteration, the FSI has been extended to 67…

The co-led UNDP and FAO Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) Programme is a multi-year (2015-20), USD 17 million initiative funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The Programme supports 11 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to identify and integrate…

The “Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable Development Vol 2” publication – available in the six official UN languages, plus Portuguese – features Southern good practices that are relevant to the implementation of all 17 SDGs. They illustrate the central tenets of effective South-South and triangular cooperation. The publication highlights how…

Three years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, global climate action is not yet sufficient to limit global warming to well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C. In order to achieve the Paris targets, more ambitious climate action is needed. In the context of the newly released special report Global Warming of 1.5°C by the Intergovernmental Panel on…

The main findings show that population growth and changes in our consumption patterns put unprecedented pressure on the planet's natural resources: • Over 75% of the Earth's land area is already degraded, and over 90% could become degraded by 2050. • Globally, a total area half of the size of the European Union (4.18 million km²) is degraded annually, with Africa and Asia being the…

The “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems” (GIAHS) Programme was developed by FAO to help in the conservation and adaptive management of outstanding traditional farming systems. These systems rely on centuries-old farming practices and accumulated knowledge to adapt to the unique features of local landscapes and create ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity, resilience…