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Acute food insecurity hotspots need urgent attention
09/03/2020
While global attention has focused on the swarms of Desert Locusts attacking crops in East Africa, a number of other countries and regions are also confronting serious food security threats and require support, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.
FAO welcomes USD 19 Million from the United States to fight locusts in East Africa
06/03/2020
The effort to stop ravenous swarms of desert locust attacking crops and pastures in East Africa has gotten another boost, thanks to a $19 million contribution from the United States. Early in the respond the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) made initial pledges of nearly $9M to support FAO's response, which it since increased by $10 million more.
Germany contributes EUR 50 million to strengthen resilience in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
04/03/2020
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), through the German Development Bank KfW, has contributed EUR 50 million ($54 million) to a resilience building programme to be implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Ezingo project: joint support for the participation of young people in reconciliation efforts and promoting peace in the Central African Republic
04/03/2020
Funded by the United Nations Development Programme Multi-Partner Trust Fund, the Ezingo project represents a collective response by FAO together with other UN agencies - United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund - to support the recovery of and empowerment of young people in the Central African Republic.
FAO-supported farmers over perform in the rainy season and enter 2020 more food secure
03/03/2020
Farmers in northeastern Nigeria who received training, seed and fertilizer from FAO had significantly greater harvests than their peers, a 2019 rainy season yield assessment has revealed.
Germany contributes EUR 17 million to combat the impact of the desert locust upsurge in East Africa
28/02/2020
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu has welcomed a €17 million contribution from Germany to provide assistance to those directly affected by the desert locust upsurge in East Africa.
Switzerland pitches in to help contain desert locust swarms in East Africa
28/02/2020
Switzerland has pledged $1 million for the ongoing campaign in East Africa aimed at controlling large infestations of the pernicious crop pest and limit damages to crops and pastures that millions of people in the region depend on.
Ramping up the fight against Fall Armyworm
27/02/2020
Tools are available to wrestle Fall Armyworm, a voracious invasive species that is ravaging crops in Africa, Asia and the Near East, and it is imperative to intensify coordination to curb the insect's spread.
Locusts in East Africa: A race against time
25/02/2020
East Africa is a region beset by climate- and conflict-related shocks. Millions of people are already acutely food insecure. Now they face another major hunger threat in the form of desert locusts.
Ethiopia races against time to control locusts as the planting season starts
25/02/2020
The Government of Ethiopia is racing against time to control Desert Locusts as the February – May Belg season starts. With support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Ministry of Agriculture is scaling up aerial and ground operations in Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' (SNNP) regions – Belg crop-producing areas.