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RCCE for COVID-19 prevention Webinar III - Food Safety Guidelines: Keeping workers safe along the food supply chain within the most acutely food insecure countries
21/06/2021
Keeping food and food workers safe is even more complex during a global pandemic crisis and all stakeholders must contribute to maintaining 360° oversight of every aspect of the food supply chain.
FAO provides emergency assistance to safeguard food security and livelihoods of vulnerable farmers and herders in the Gaza Strip
21/06/2021
The people in the Gaza Strip suffer from a poor humanitarian situation due to multiple challenges, including conflict, which escalated from 10 to 21 May 2021.
Protecting livelihood assets through anticipatory actions in flood-prone communities in northwestern Bangladesh
21/06/2021
Floods are an annual occurrence in Bangladesh, and the risk weighs heavily on families when the monsoon season begins.
Strengthening countries’ capabilities to manage animal health emergencies
18/06/2021
Animal health emergencies remain among the most challenging situations a country can confront and they impact the food security and livelihoods of nearly half of the 900 million people living in poverty who depend on livestock to survive.
Trial error and success: Learning from twenty years of voucher interventions for agriculture in Mozambique
18/06/2021
The webinar will look at the past and present experiences from Mozambique, where the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been implementing voucher interventions over the past 20 years.
Canada contributes over CAD 22 million for FAO’s COVID-19 response
17/06/2021
FAO to boost the food security and livelihoods of vulnerable communities in Africa and Latin America
UN agencies concerned by looming famine in northern Ethiopia call for urgent life-saving action to avert it
10/06/2021
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF call for urgent action to address the dramatic acute food insecurity in northern Ethiopia.
FAO supports the Government of Bangladesh to vaccinate cattle against lumpy skin disease in target areas
08/06/2021
When Shukla Parial heard that cattle in her village were dying from a new disease, she feared the worst
Anticipating the immediate consequences of conflict on agricultural livelihoods and food insecurity
08/06/2021
The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises showed that the number of people facing hunger is on the rise.
Burkina Faso: anticipating the immediate consequences of conflict on agricultural livelihoods and food security
08/06/2021
In the Liptako Gourma cross-border areas of Burkina Faso, Mali and the Niger, the number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity (CH Phase 3+) increased from about 1 million to 4.4 million between 2015 and 2020.