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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.
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.
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.
Belgium contributes to FAO and the Government of Ethiopia’s desert locust control operations in affected and at-risk areas
20/02/2020
The worst desert locust crisis in 25 years is underway in Ethiopia, where around 90 000 ha of cropland and pasture are already reported to have been infested.
Almost half the population in South Sudan in severe acute food insecurity
20/02/2020
Some 6.5 million people in South Sudan - more than half of the population - could be in severe acute food insecurity at the height of the lean season (May-July), three United Nations agencies warned today.
Desert locust ground surveillance intensified in Kenya
18/02/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has started training 300 National Youth Service (NYS) trainees as part of its action plan to boost the Government of Kenya’s surveillance and control of the worst desert locust invasion the country has seen in 70 years.