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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.
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
©FAO/Michael Tewelde
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
©FAO/Oleksandr Mliekov
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
©FAO/Ahmedalidreesy Adil
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
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

©FAO/Richard Trenchard
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