Improving the recognition of land tenure rights and creating a more equitable distribution of land is a necessary step to eradicate hunger and advance towards the Sustainable Development Objectives in Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO said today.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) coordinated a technical meeting to promote and build government capacity for rural poverty reduction through social protection policymaking in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region.

A group of experts in agricultural water management from FAO, IFAD, governmental institutions, research, development agencies and NGOs from Rwanda met in Kigali from  29 to 31 of March 2017 to map and assess the potential of water investments for poverty reduction in the country.  During the workshop, FAO proposed a...

“Social protection can be a powerful tool to break the negative spiral of gender inequalities,” said Ms. Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office to the United Nations in New York in her remarks at  a side event  during the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of...

Greening the wood energy sector holds a vast potential for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and improving rural livelihoods, FAO said today on the occasion of the UN's International Day of Forests.