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Senegal | FAO promotes pioneering initiative to help tackle antimicrobial resistance
03/12/2020
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global threat of increasing concern to human, animal, plant and environmental health.
Window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing; UN agencies warn
03/12/2020

Levels of hunger reach record levels, requiring urgent action

Philippines | Emergency assistance to safeguard food security and livelihoods of vulnerable farmers and fishers in Catanduanes Province affected by Super Typhoon Goni
03/12/2020
The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. It is at risk to typhoons as well as other hazards, including earthquakes, drought, flooding, volcanic eruptions and food chain crises.
Additional support from the Netherlands for desert locust ravaged communities
27/11/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) thanks the Netherlands for their additional contribution of EUR 3.5 million to help mitigate impacts on food security and livelihoods in Ethiopia as a result of the desert locust upsurge. 
The Sudan | FAO and Belgium assist food-insecure farming households impacted by COVID-19 and floods
23/11/2020
The Sudan is suffering one of the world’s largest protracted humanitarian crises. About 9.3 million people in the Sudan were already in need of humanitarian assistance prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and floods.
Somalia | FAO and Somalia step up locust fight as hatching and hopper band formation continues in central area
20/11/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today that large populations of desert locust in Somalia
La FAO et la Belgique au soutien des ménages agricoles en situation d’insécurité alimentaire touchés par la covid-19 (IN FRENCH)
20/11/2020
L’insécurité persistante et les conflits intercommunautaires, associés aux effets dévastateurs des catastrophes naturelles et de la pandémie de la covid-19, ont aggravé l’insécurité alimentaire en République démocratique du Congo.
Social protection has a key role to play in COVID-19 response
20/11/2020

Cultivate Africa drives dialogue on building back better

Syria: FAO helps reactivate Syria’s water resources monitoring system through training
19/11/2020
FAO has designed a comprehensive training programme for the technical staff of the Water Resources Information Center - General Commission for Water Resources in Syria.
Viet Nam: FAO and Belgium assist food-insecure smallholder farming households impacted by the shock of the recent floods
18/11/2020
Since 6 October 2020, the central region of Viet Nam has experienced prolonged heavy rains in association with three tropical storms that made landfall on 11 October, 14 October and 16 October, as well as Typhoon Molave, which hit the region on 29 October.