Efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems are a fundamental part of the climate solution!
The delegation attended the 2-week #BonnClimateConference, leading events and supporting Members:
👉bit.ly/43YpRxj
#ClimateAction #SB58
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Harnessing the power of rain 🫧
Rainwater harvesting and agroecological irrigation are building farmers' resilience to #climatechange in Senegal:
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✍️Check out these courses about National Greenhouse Gas Inventories on the e-learning academy!
The series aims to strengthen capacities in national entities to enable them to meet the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the #ParisAgreement 💡
👉ow.ly/3GTA50OQ78L
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Globally, less than 15% of all landholders are women.
Gender-responsive approaches can address underlying inequalities in control and access to land resources and are needed for realizing transformative change
#HerLand
#ClimateAction
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Join us online for #DesertificationandDroughtDay
"Advancing gender equality and land restoration goals"
🗓️ Today
⏰16:00-19:00 (CEST) 10:00-13:00 (EDT)
media.un.org/en/asset/k1i/k
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✨Exciting news this week! The #SCALAprogramme is empowering Egypt in its NAP process & integrating the agriculture subsectors 🌱 into national #climatechange efforts through capacity development & workshops 💪
💡Learn how: rb.gy/emnkj
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Agroecology can help:
🌱Build resilient livelihoods
🌱Safeguard #biodiversity
🌱Boost nutrition
🌱Manage the planet’s natural resources
🌱Respond to #climatechange
Learn how 👉 fao.org/agroecology/en
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Register now for the #webinar on Ecosystem Restoration: Best practices for capacity development, knowledge and learning.
🗓️23 June, 10:00-11:30 EST
➡️bit.ly/43OMiEC
#GenerationRestoration
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📢 #jobopportunity
is looking for qualified Communications Specialists to support in the communication of FAO's work on climate change, biodiversity and environment.
💻Join the roster!
🗓️ Apply by 29 June 2023
👉bit.ly/3P9gp5v
#UNjobs #ClimateAction
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We cannot tackle the #ClimateCrisis or end hunger without taking decisive #ClimateAction across our agrifood systems.
's Strategy on Climate Change will help deliver impactful & innovative solutions for adaptation & mitigation👉bit.ly/3GvnJUT
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FAO Director-General meets UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and President-Designate of COP28
Discussion highlighted the need to enhance cooperation to transform agrifood systems and to coordinate efforts ahead #COP28
Read more: fao.org/neareast/news/
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#SaveTheDate for #HLPF 2023, where & our UN partners will launch 'The State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World 2023' report.
The report will discuss urbanization, agrifood systems transformation & healthy diets across rural-urban continuum.
👉bit.ly/SOFI2023
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Seaweed is a precious product for 25K Zanzibari farmers, 80% percent of whom are women. But climate change is taking a toll on the ocean and their livelihoods.
saw an opportunity to introduce a new skill & trained #women to farm sea cucumbers
fao.org/fao-stories/ar
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The expansion of Africa’s Great Green Wall aims to restore 100M hectares of degraded lands in the Sahel by 2030.
How is supporting this initiative to combat #climatechange, desertification & food insecurity?
👉 bit.ly/3m4MPhU
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. & teamed up to put #SCALAprogramme in action!
Gain insights into the scoping mission in Ethiopia's Oromia & Harari regions, driving change through watershed assessment & local collaboration to scale up #climateaction.
Read more ➡️ shorturl.at/kAJS9
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What's 1⃣ effective solution to build resilience and mitigate emissions in the agrifood sector?
Improving:
🐄Animal husbandry
🐄Feeding,
🐄Genetics
🐄Health
& addressing food loss & waste so countries can significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from #livestock production.
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There is no #foodsecurity without the ocean.
Join at the Ocean and Climate Dialogue to understand why aquatic food systems are key to #ClimateAction.
Tune in at 15:00 CEST to gain valuable insights
👉bit.ly/3J9YZBO
#SB58
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Protecting life on Earth is crucial! 🌱#DYK, that measuring #biodiversity plays a vital role?
Take advantage of ABC-Map to plan your projects & join forces to safeguard our precious planet! 🌎
#ABCMap #ClimateAction
👉abc-map.org
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Time for Change!
We need to adjust to the reality of #ClimateCrisis and #FoodSecurity
We need a new business model to feed & nourish a growing world #population while protecting #nature & the #environment
Read my thoughts in article
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📢 Calling all young people, from 5-19 years old, to participate in the #WorldFoodDay Poster contest!
🖌️🎨Show your creativity by designing a poster of your water action for food.
Your actions can also contribute to a sustainable future👉🏼bit.ly/3zk3y6Z
#WaterAction
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Climate change is threatening our ability to ensure global #FoodSecurity, eradicate rural poverty & achieve sustainable development.
Check out 's work on #climatechange to sustainably transform agrifood systems.
👉bit.ly/2S30cyw
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📣Live from #SB58
- How can we reverse current decreasing trends of climate-related finance to agriculture?
- How can quality climate finance support agrifood system transformation?
FAST is a multi-stakeholder partnership that provides some answers 👉ow.ly/owGv50OLWgF
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"The challenge is massive, 3% of total #ClimateFinance goes to the agriculture & food sector, & less to smallholder farmers"
I. Vasileiou, Senior Ag. Specialist at #SB58 event, looking at challenges to find solutions through the Sharm el-Sheikh joint work.
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"Climate change is affecting all aspects of agriculture with disproportionate impacts on vulnerable rainfed farmers in the Global South. Effective adaptation exists, but its not happening at scale & pace needed."
sets scene at #SB58
Live 🟢ow.ly/o5Iq50OLPCM
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Today is the World Day Against Child Labour.
Find out what the UN Food and Agriculture Organization is doing in Africa to #EndChildLabour in agriculture.
👉🏿fao.org/fao-stories/ar
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📢 A global transformation is needed to ensure that sustainable livestock systems
👧🏽provide valuable nutrition
🐪 support livelihoods
💧 minimize environmental impacts
🌎 strengthen climate action
➡️ fao.org/livestock-envi
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🔸 What is the Sharm el-Sheikh joint work?
🔸 What would progress mean in the next 3½ years?
🔸 How can Parties use the outcomes of #Koronivia & Sharm el-Sheikh joint work in their national climate policies?
Join FAO & partners TODAY at #SB58!
➡️ ow.ly/2Fvq50OHPyb
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#DYK? In #Ethiopia, heavy rains increase incidence & intensity of work for boys, as rural households require additional hands for repairs after heavy rain & are forced to turn to children for help.
#EndChildLabour by supporting sustainable agriculture.
👉ow.ly/VaIq50OHOp8
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#DYK 70% of child labour occurs in the agricultural sector?
With the agricultural sector significantly vulnerable to #climatechange, the effects of climate change are likely to increase aspects of child labour.
#EndChildLabour
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Globally, 160 million boys and girls are trapped in #ChildLabour, which deprives them of their childhoods.
This needs to stop.
We need to address the root causes of child labour in agriculture 👉bit.ly/2KAbADr
#EndChildLabour
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Increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is forcing some children to engage in #ChildLabour in agriculture.
World Day Against Child Labour is a timely reminder that we must all do more to #EndChildLabour in the agriculture sector.
📖 ow.ly/VaIq50OHOp8
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🟢#ComingUp: Online International Expert Panel on the importance of genetic diversity of #sorghum & #millets for food security & nutrition🌾
ℹ️ Info & Register👉bit.ly/43cKjKe
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed🌱
#CropDiversity #FoodSecurity #ClimateAction #food #IYM2023
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At today’s event at #SB58 on ‘Transparency for effective climate policies in agriculture’, FAO’s highlighted how FAO supports countries by:
📑Enhancing national GHG inventories
🔍Assessing #NDC progress
⚙️Building capacity & tracking efforts to adapt to #climatechange
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FAO is equipping communities in Somaliland with diversified livelihoods to fight food insecurity.
See how & @NLinSomaliaope are helping agro pastoralists like Asha Mohamed and her community to cope with climate change & build a #ResilientFuture
📺 youtube.com/watch?v=cW4N_q
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📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSION | 2 WEEKS TO GO
Do you have a case study of agrifood systems technologies & #AgInnovation for #ClimateAction at country level?
If your case is selected, you will be invited to present it at #SIF2023 on 16-20 October.
Submit👉bit.ly/3qfzRDa
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#DYK 112 million girls & boys around the 🌍 are trapped in child labour in agriculture❓
Join our virtual event on how to #EndChildLabour in the sector:
🗓️ 12 June
📌Register: rb.gy/kgdx5
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How can #transparency for mitigation & adaptation in the ag sectors support countries to meet their climate targets, while ensuring economic development & #foodsecurity?
Join , & partners at #SB58 TODAY!
🗓️Friday 9 June, 14:45-16:00
🟢ow.ly/bRfe50OJPAV
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📢 Costa Rica’s breakthrough: Improving #methane emission quantification in the livestock sector
National stakeholders identify research needs and opportunities for low-emission livestock production in Costa Rica
➡️ fao.org/in-action/ente
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