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Mohamed Bakarr Lead Environmental Specialist The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the warning bells about our broken food system. As farmers and consumers grapple with disruptions in the global food...

Nepal is a mountainous landlocked country in South Asia. The Himalayan mountain range runs across Nepal’s northern and western parts with ten of the world highest mountains including mount Everest...

GEF-FAO Coastal Fisheries Initiative Program By IW:LEARN Coastal fishing in Senegal hard hit by measures to prevent spread of COVID-19 Djirnda, Senegal, 30 May 2020 – Elhadj Issakha Sarr is sounding...

Naoko Ishii is CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, a multilateral trust fund whose $1 billion annual work program helps developing countries address the drivers of environmental...

Located on the eastern coast of southern Africa, the Republic of Mozambique has the third-longest coastline on the African continent. Its 2,770 kilometres long coast is home to about 60 percent of...

Government representatives have approved more than $600 million for two new work programs that include innovative ventures to expand marine protected areas and engage indigenous peoples for...

To help catalyze transformational change, the strategy for the GEF's latest four-year investment cycle (known as GEF-7) is explicitly focused on our food, urban, and energy systems. The single...

$160 million pledged for GEF-managed fund that helps poorest countries prepare for climate change NEW YORK, September 26, 2019 - Citing an urgent need to fortify global defenses against climate...

Introduction Climate change continues to be one of the greatest challenges facing our planet and humanity today, and local communities and small island developing states (SIDS) are at the front line...

GEF 56th Council and 26th LDCF-SCCF meetings signal “new way of doing business” Governments have approved programmes and projects worth almost $1 billion to tackle growing threats to the natural...