Restarting the FAO blog on climate change

During COP-15 in Copenhagen, I started this blog to cover food security, agriculture and climate change.  I am now restarting it to cover progress of agriculture and forestry issues within the climate change agenda, and to link these to food security. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to [...]

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FAO Director-General highlights importance of agriculture in climate change talks

In an interview published today with Reuters, FAO Director General, Jacques Diouf  called for greater recognition of  agriculture in the climate change talks.  He also touched upon the need for a financial mechanism to encourage countries which have forests to conserve them and the importance of conservation agriculture. Read the complete interview here.

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Update from Sky.it with comment by FAO DG

This newsclip (in Italian) includes a comment towards the end by FAO Director General, Dr. Jacques Diouf

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