This practice describes the step-by-step approach to promote conservation agriculture implemented in Timor-Leste. It also describes the conservation agriculture (CA) principles and steps in adopting the CA package. This practice was tested in Timor-Leste, a tropical warm agroecologic zone. In areas [...]

An event organized by the Future Food Institute and FAO elearning Academy. This global event brings together bright minds and best practices on sustainable food systems for regenerating the Planet. This relay of positivity and goodness, like an ideal Olympic torch, [...]

An event co-hosted by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The largest event of its kind, the 7th edition of the Humanitarian Newtworks and Partnerships week [...]

This study documents the outcome of acting early to protect farming families in northwestern Bangladesh from impending floods. It outlines FAO’s contribution to a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BRCS), [...]

With the aim of localising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Expo 2020 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Programme, ‘Small Steps, Big Leaps’, will spotlight simple but effective initiatives that can be adapted, replicated or scaled for enhanced global impact. The international [...]