FAO launches the Sustainable Cities Integrated Programme in Zimbabwe
05/09/2024
Mendoza y Newcastle reciben los premios de la Iniciativa ciudades verdes de la FAO
26/07/2024
New global study unveils city-region networks, highlights role of intermediate cities
26/06/2024
The harmless soldier fighting mounds of harmful waste
10/06/2024
FAO and the City of Rome’s Global Library of Trees and Flowers raises awareness about biodiversity and sustainability
24/04/2024
FAO formally launches Green Cities Initiative in Cameroon
21/04/2024
remarks at the launch event, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu noted that with two thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050 - urban areas are facing major challenges.
Overcoming barriers to building the circular bioeconomy in city region food systems
15/04/2024
The circular bioeconomy (CBE) is attracting considerable interest as a way to stimulate economic growth within city regions and end dependency on non-renewable resources, with many initiatives focused on aspects of food systems. A recent City Region Food Systems (CRFS) Knowledge Exchange webinar brought together experts to discuss developments and ways to overcome barriers to scaling up and realising the full environmental, economic, and social benefits.
Sahelian students partner with FAO offices in 'Climathon VIVRE 2023'
22/03/2023
“Green Cities, a pathway for agrifood systems transformation in the urban agenda”
10/03/2023
Webcast on the Brussels Briefing on “Green Cities, a pathway for agrifood systems transformation in the urban agenda” that took place on 10 March.
The event attracted 152 registrations and welcomed 82 unique viewers on the day itself.
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As the pace of urbanization quickens in Asia-Pacific, so too does the threat of urban food insecurity – UN agencies report
24/01/2023
Leveraging urban and local agrifood systems for sustainable transformation
20/01/2023
Urban greenery helps avert multiple crises for dryland cities, FAO report shows
21/12/2022
Rapidly expanding cities in very dry parts of the world must be turned into "green urban oases" to ensure they become both healthier places to live in and more resilient to climate change, says a new report launched today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Some 35 percent of the world’s largest cities are built in the world’s drylands. This includes such megacities as Cairo, Mexico City and New Delhi. In all, they are home to more than 2 billion people, 90 percent of them in developing countries.
Waste to Gold? Bioeconomy innovations for green cities
21/10/2022
Gilles Martin and Hervé Levite sit down to talk to the FAO Bioeconomy team about FAO's Green Cities Initiative and how sustainable bioeconomy applications can help to transform urban agrifood systems.
Why is FAO interested in cities?
Our world is becoming increasingly urbanized, a phenomenon that is particularly evident in Sub-Saharan Africa, and to a lesser extent in South Asia and Melanesia. In addition to this rapid demographic change, cities from the global south are facing the impacts of multiple other challenges, including climate change and economic turmoil. These combined challenges massively increase the vulnerability of cities, at a time when they also need to reduce their environmental footprint, waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy consumption.