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Five things you should know about an age-old pest: the desert locust
11/05/2020
Desert locust upsurges aren’t a new phenomenon. Locusts are one of the oldest migratory pests in the world and have wreaked havoc on crops across the globe for centuries.
FAO makes gains in the fight against desert locusts in East Africa and Yemen but threat of a food security crisis remains
11/05/2020
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, said today that significant gains had been made in the fight against the desert locust upsurge in East Africa and Yemen.
UN continues support to fight desert locust in Somalia amid COVID-19 response
01/05/2020
While Somalia and its partners, including the United Nations, focus on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, other parts of the international organization remain concentrated on supporting the Somali authorities in a range of areas – including the current desert locust infestation.
Government of Russia announces $3 million in aid for desert locust control in Kenya
30/04/2020
The Government of Russia has announced a contribution of $3 million (KSh 300 million) to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support Kenya’s response to the worst desert locust invasion to affect that East African country in over 70 years.
FAO distributes egg incubators to improve rural families’ livelihoods in the Syrian Arab Republic with support from DFID
30/04/2020
An implementation of an integrated and innovative intervention has sustained a source of food and income for the most vulnerable resident in villages along the river in Deir Ez-Zor Governorate in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Belgium supports vulnerable small-scale farmers affected by the financial and economic crisis in Lebanon
29/04/2020
On 17 October 2019, nationwide protests erupted throughout Lebanon, coinciding with a major economic and financial crisis.
CERF supports FAO in preventing and responding to the impact of COVID-19 on food security
29/04/2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is already directly affecting food systems through impacts on food supply and demand, and indirectly through the decreases in purchasing power, the capacity to produce and distribute food, and the intensification of care tasks all of which will more strongly affect poor and vulnerable populations.
FAO welcomes Russian Federation’s $10 million donation to support fight against desert locusts in East Africa
28/04/2020
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu has thanked the Russian Federation for boosting the fight against the desert locust outbreak in East Africa by making a $10 million contribution to support FAO operations in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda.
FAO steps up efforts to revive livelihoods and food security in Pakistan’s Sindh Province amid COVID-19 outbreak
22/04/2020
The livelihoods of millions of family farmers in Pakistan have been affected by a series of natural hazards in the last 14 months and now stand to be devastated by the spread of COVID-19, but action is underway to help them, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said today.
Somalia and FAO strengthen cooperation to curb the spread of desert locust
20/04/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Somalia have recently strengthened their partnership to scale up local capacities, surveillance and control operations to combat the desert locust upsurge.