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International Women’s Day 2023: Bridging the digital gender divide is essential for unleashing women’s potential in rural areas, say UN food and agriculture agencies
08/03/2023
FAO-IFAD-WFP push to enhance rural women and girls’ digital capabilities and tackle the barriers they face to access technology to be equal contributors to our agrifood systems.
Somalia: lives and livelihoods of millions still at risk, FAO calls for an urgent scale-up in emergency humanitarian aid alongside resilience
06/03/2023
Strategic investments are needed to sustainably improve food and water security for millions of Somalis
FAO and UNIDO launch global Agrifood Systems Transformation Accelerator (ASTA)
06/03/2023
Programme aims to improve food security and nutrition in Least Developed Countries
Cash assistance is helping families in Ukraine rebuild their day-to-day lives
24/02/2023
Supporting rural families to meet their basic needs in this time of crisis
Türkiye-Syria earthquake: farmers are in need of immediate assistance
17/02/2023
FAO raises concerns over disruptions to basic food production, seeks support to address immediate livelihood needs
A new lease on life for Internally Displaced Persons in Mozambique
15/02/2023
Families from the country’s destabilised Cabo Delgado Region are getting a chance to start over
Joint Statement by the heads of FAO, IMF, World Bank, WFP and WTO
08/02/2023
The global food and nutrition security crisis
FAO fully committed to limiting the spread of antimicrobial resistance
07/02/2023
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu addresses the sixth meeting of the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance
FAO Director-General addresses the launch of the Early Warnings initiative for the Caribbean
06/02/2023
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today addressed the launch in Bridgetown, Barbados of the Executive Action Plan for the Early Warnings for All Initiative (EW4ALL) for the Caribbean, an event designed to mobilize support among the region’s governments for a UN plan that helps protect people and assets from the growing number of natural disasters in a relatively cheap and effective way.
Changing the internally displaced persons paradigm in Mozambique
01/02/2023
Providing IDPs from the country’s destabilized Cabo Delgado Region with a means to start over