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On Monday 20 March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the final part of its Sixth Assessment Report. The report was clear about the catastrophic effect that climate change could have on the food supply worldwide, devastating agriculture and fishing particularly in countries in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa. However, they also provided a number of solutions, both to mitigate the effects of climate change, and in the long-term, to reduce them.

Leading food systems experts are warning the food-price crisis is entering a dangerous new phase, as the world teeters on the brink of a debt crisis that

Big Ag’s influence was evident in a final text that crowded out small-scale farmers’ demands.

The first official Food and Agriculture Pavilion at a UNFCCC COP has been unveiled at Sharm El-Sheikh

The African Centre for Biodiversity and Third World Network invite you to a webinar in two sessions/ Le Centre Africain pour la Biodiversité et Third World

Developing countries rich in biodiversity have demanded that fair and equitable access of genetic data, and benefits arising from the utilisation of their bioresources for products or research, should be shared with local communities by developed countries

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems has called for a reform of food systems to avoid "unprecedented hunger".

While some have praised the country's $232 million pledge, others feel a country of China's size could be doing much more.

China's launch of a biodiversity fund is a "good start" but falls short of what is needed to help developing countries meet the goals in a global nature pact, environmentalists warned, urging all rich nations to step up ambition and funding.

A $232 million pledge by China at the COP15 biodiversity summit is a start – but $350 billion a year is needed by 2030, analysts say