After a mistranslation led her to enrol in a plumbing workshop, Safaa trained her own team of mostly Syrian refugee women to fix leaky taps and challenge stereotypes.

In the province of Brindisi, in the Southern Italian peninsula called Salento, two restaurants have FAO in their names, because their owners decided to name them after the FAO fishing zone they belong to.

For the past nine years, Rajesh Kumar Sharma has been operating a makeshift school between two pillars of the aerial metro that runs across India’s capital. More than 200  children from the surrounding slums attend this open-air classroom every day.

Micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (commonly abbreviated to SMEs) are responsible for more than two thirds of all jobs worldwide. They also account for the majority of new job creation. But despite providing a huge share of global employment, SMEs still face major challenges when it comes to working conditions, productivity and informality. Explore this InfoStory to find out how the ILO is supporting SMEs to reach their full potential and securing a better future of work for everyone.

The United Nations is facing a severe shortage of cash in the regular budget, and unless more Governments pay their annual dues, “our work and our reforms are at risk,” the UN chief António Guterres has warned Member States.

Whales are known for being the largest and most intelligent creatures in the ocean. Now, marine biologists have discovered that they also capture tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere, a service with an economic value of US$1 trillion.

Children seeking asylum who have been separated from their parents say they face poor conditions and threats of violence at a reception centre on the Greek island of Lesvos.

While one in nine people goes to bed hungry every night, one-third of the food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted. Wasting food also increases greenhouse gas emissions and contributes to climate change.

The Comoros imports about 70 percent of its food, and half of the people do not have enough to eat. With help from FAO, farmers have set up poultry groups and over 250 henhouses. 

Books on feminism and women’s experience reflect how diverse women’s experiences around the world truly are.

In Kakuma refugee camp in north-western Kenya, girls are empowered by their new-found passion for computer coding.

UNAIDS Senior Adviser on Science, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, worked on the Broderip Ward as a newly qualified doctor and remembers it as an intense and highly emotional period.

Climate change is having a huge impact on communities in rural areas. However, agricultural innovations can provide solutions to producing food and ensuring stable incomes for those who are the most vulnerable. Innovation is key to ensuring access to water, food and income in the face of climate change. One way to tackle the negative effects on food security is through further research into common food products and innovations in ways to use them.

The two agencies have worked with researchers to support the development of new varieties of various banana species that would be resistant to the fungal disease that threatens them.

Mohamed has translated a loan of GNF2 million (US$215) from a network of rural financial cooperatives supported by IFAD, into a farming business with six hired labourers.