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FAO launches new COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme outlining seven key priority areas
14/07/2020
The UN Agency also calls for joint coordinated global response to support food and agriculture
Syrian Arab Republic: FAO supports the global animal health campaign to eradicate peste des petits ruminants
09/07/2020
Animals are a source of both a food, and a source of livelihood in the Syrian Arab Republic.
FAO welcomes additional €15 million from the European Union to fight Desert Locusts and their impacts on food security
08/07/2020
Sustained support critical as new swarms threaten East Africa, Yemen and southwestern Asia.
Haiti: Belgium supports vulnerable households affected by COVID-19 (in French)
07/07/2020
Il est essentiel de fournir une action précoce pour préserver les moyens d’existence des ménages vulnérables touchés par la pandémie de la covid-19 en Haïti.
Bangladesh | FAO provides rice seed to thousands of farmers affected by COVID-19 and Cyclone Amphan
03/07/2020
FAO, in partnership with the Department of Agricultural Extension, has distributed rice seed to 24 000 farmers in Cox’s Bazar in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and last month’s super cyclone.
Sierra Leone: Belgium supports anticipatory actions against the secondary impacts of COVID-19
02/07/2020
Implementing anticipatory actions to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on food supply chains and safeguard the livelihoods and food security of vulnerable farming families.
_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=f7b01752_1 "Targeting 6 000 families, FAO started the provision of rice seed in Inn Gyin Myaing and Tha Yet Kin Ma Nu Villages in Buthidaung township.")
Myanmar | Improving farming productivity in Rakhine State
01/07/2020
Rakhine State, along the western coast of Myanmar, is home to approximately 3.3 million people, many of whom depend on agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture to make a living. However, since 2012, repeated outbreaks of armed conflicts and intercommunal violence, mostly in the central areas of ...
FAO Syria releases Seed Security Assessment findings
19/06/2020
Damascus - 16 June 2020: Seed availability of major crops has been a serious challenge for Syrian smallholder farmers in the past 10 years due to the damage to the agricultural system caused the conflict.
Protecting livestock and pastoral livelihoods in Somalia during COVID-19 amid floods and insecurity
19/06/2020
FAO campaign vaccinates 14.5 million goats and treats another 3.5 million animals to safeguard the country’s main economic activity
Global food markets still brace for uncertainty in 2020/21 because of COVID-19 says FAO
11/06/2020
Food Outlook report assesses global supply and demand for major food commodities