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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.
Somalia | FAO and FCDO provide marginalized fisherfolks with ice for the first time in Bajuni Islands
18/11/2020
Ismail Bana Ibrahim and his colleagues set into the deep sea around 6 pm and came back the following morning with 40 kg of iced fresh fish, ready for the mainland Kismayu market.
Yemen: FAO holds Food Security Analysis Training Workshop
13/11/2020
FAO Yemen, in cooperation with the Food Security Technical Secretariat and other partners, concluded a training workshop on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an indispensable tool for developing humanitarian and development programming.
Namibia’s locust crisis: “they have no mercy at all”
12/11/2020
Working with farmers to battle the worst African Migratory Locust outbreak in years
Tree nurseries: empowering vulnerable farmers while nourishing South Sudan
09/11/2020
Dalia Wang, 39, lives in a village near Maban and is a mother of five who has looked after her children alone since her husband passed away.
ISAVET in Africa: Cameroon forms the first cohort of national veterinary professionals in field epidemiology
09/11/2020
An evaluation by the Cameroon Animal Disease Epidemiology Surveillance Network (RESCAM), carried out in 2018, revealed a strong need for field veterinary epidemiology capacity to support animal health services.
UN food agencies warn of rising levels of acute hunger with potential risk of famine in four hotspots
06/11/2020
Burkina Faso, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen cause for concern but acute hunger on the rise across the globe
Myanmar: European Union instrumental in providing support to vulnerable women
06/11/2020
In August 2020, a new surge in locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported in Rakhine State and other regions of Myanmar.