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Knowledge keeps moving even when people cannot
03/07/2022
The story of farmers and rural communities is one of resilience.
Drought in the Horn of Africa: FAO appeals for $172 million to help avert famine and humanitarian catastrophe
27/06/2022
Rapid Response and Mitigation Plan focuses on four epicentres: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
Bangladeshi villages turn digital
24/06/2022
FAO Digital Villages initiative empowers farmers to access markets and improve incomes
Tigray: Time is running out to avert worrying levels of food insecurity
22/06/2022
Farmers in parts of northern Ethiopia are in serious danger of losing the main planting season (June-August) if they do not receive urgent support from the international community to sow their fields, which would further deteriorate the already serious food security situation in the region
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From hard-hit Mariupol to backyard farming in eastern Ukraine
21/06/2022
The war caught Larysa Zueva while she was working a shift at a psychiatric hospital in Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine
Sudan: new data reveals a sharp deterioration in food crisis, with nearly 12 million hungry people
21/06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warns about a looming food crisis in Sudan driven by the combined impacts of armed conflict, low production of key staple crops and economic turmoil
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FAO Desert Locust campaign: East Africa upsurge suppressed, Kenya free from Desert Locust
15/06/2022
Interview with Cyril Ferrand, FAO’s Resilience Team Leader for East Africa, and Carla Mucavi, FAO Country Representative in Kenya
Afghanistan: FAO and the World Bank step up their response to the worsening food security
13/06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed an unprecedented $150 million contribution from the World Bank to provide critical livelihood and life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable rural populations in Afghanistan
As rains fail again, catastrophic hunger looms over Somalia
06/06/2022
A historic fourth consecutive failed rainy
season, skyrocketing prices and an underfunded humanitarian response have
resulted in a 160 percent increase in people facing catastrophic levels of food
insecurity, starvation and disease in Somalia
FAO and WFP warn of looming widespread food crisis as hunger threatens stability in dozens of countries
06/06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today issued a stark warning of multiple, looming food crises, driven by conflict, climate shocks, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic