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Enhancing food diversity in the midst of a climate crisis: How plant genetic material ensures future food security
22/05/2020
Throughout history 6 000 – 7 000 plant species have been cultivated for food. Yet today 40 percent of our daily calories come from just three crops: rice, wheat and maize.
FAO Director-General says the fight against desert locusts will take time despite significant control gains
22/05/2020
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, has warned that efforts to control desert locusts will take time, noting increased concern for the Sahel and Southwest Asia is adding to the burden of efforts ongoing in the Horn of Africa and Yemen.
Belgium supports FAO in the rapid recovery of vulnerable households’ livelihoods in Mali during COVID-19
19/05/2020
In Mali, the first cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were reported on 25 March 2020 in a context of growing insecurity and when the Government had just declared a food security and nutrition emergency, for which it requested support from its international partners especially in view of last year’s poor crop production results
FAO needs $350 million to avert rising hunger as countries reel from COVID-19 pandemic’s impact
18/05/2020
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking $350 million to scale up hunger-fighting and livelihoods-boosting activities in food crisis contexts where COVID-19's impact could be devastating.
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Time to harvest the honey: Syrian returnees find new livelihoods in beekeeping
15/05/2020
The improvement of the security situation in Daraa Governorate in southwest Syria has allowed thousands of displaced families to return to their homes.
Farmers in El Salvador adapt livelihoods to the new realities of COVID-19
11/05/2020
Juan Carlos Rivera lives in the Dry Corridor of El Salvador, an area where high temperatures, low rainfall and regular droughts pose constant regular problems to his way of life.
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.
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.