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Soil pollution may be invisible to the human eye, but it limits a soil's capacity to provide essential ecosystem services and the production of safe and nutritious food.

In the framework of the World Environment Day and the launch of the...

FAO is the designated United Nations custodian agency for 21 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators and a contributing agency for another five – covering almost 10% of the entire SDG global indicator framework. This expanded role reflects the Organization’s significant...

2021 is the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly. The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, pledges to intensify efforts for ending child...

22 May is the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). The IDB reminds us that biodiversity is the answer to several sustainable development challenges.

To commemorate the IDB 2021, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific is organizing a virtual...

FAO and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) are co-organising the Online Workshops on Legal Acquisition Findings for trade in CITES tree species from the Lower Mekong Region (LMR)...