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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.
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Displaying 1676 - 1680 of 5074Annotated Provisional Agenda - Corrigendum. European Forestry Commission meeting
Meeting Name: European Forestry Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO:EFC/2015/1 Corr.1 - ECE/TIM/2015/1/Corr.1
Session: Sess.38 - Sess.73
Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SAN) en América Latina y el Caribe
Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/8
Session: Sess. 29
FAO Assessment of Forests and Carbon Stocks, 1990-2015. Reduced Overall Emissions, but Increased Degradation
Global estimates of forest emission trends show that total emissions have decreased by over 25 percent between the period 2001–2010 and the period 2011–2015. FAO data show that the decrease is due to a decline in deforestation rates globally. They also reveal that emissions from forest degradation, estimated for the first time, are increasing over time and represent one-quarter of total emissions.
Forests and Climate Change after Lima: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific region
Almost every nation is now a signatory to the Convention on Climate Change. The first Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Berlin in 1995. Two decades since, we have come a long way, but we have yet to reach the ultimate objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would end human-induced influence on the climate. While the COP negotiations are landmark events for humankind, many experts who work in the field and are not directly involved in the negotiations cannot claim to comprehend what is being discussed.