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Pulling lifesaving data out of thin air, literally
05/08/2024
How a disease surveillance team is preventing zoonotic diseases before they start.
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Restricted local food production exacerbates the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip
05/08/2024
Intensified hostilities, access constraints and damage to agriculture have heightened acute food insecurity for Gazans
The Screwworm menace affecting animals and threatening humans in Senegal
01/08/2024
Applying a One Health approach to pest prevention
Famine conditions in parts of Sudan: FAO urges at scale life-saving assistance to boost local food production
01/08/2024
In response to alarming new findings confirming famine conditions in parts of Darfur, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is urging an immediate cessation of hostilities, rapid scale up of life-saving food, nutrition and cash assistance as well as of the emergency agricultural aid.
FAO and EU sign 47 million euro programme to enhance resilience and food security for pastoralists in Eastern Africa
30/07/2024
The programme is expected to directly benefit more than 100,000 households across Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, the Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda
FAO urges immediate action as new variants of avian influenza threaten Asia and the Pacific
25/07/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is calling for urgent regional efforts to combat a rise in avian influenza cases across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Hunger numbers stubbornly high for three consecutive years as global crises deepen: UN report
24/07/2024
1 in 11 people worldwide faced hunger in 2023, 1 in 5 in Africa
World must look to South America's success in reducing hunger: FAO Chief Economist
24/07/2024
Interview with FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero on the SOFI 2024 report
South Sudan: The Government, World Bank and FAO scale up actions to build farmers’ climate resilience in the face of flooding and other disaster risks
23/07/2024
A $30 million project aims to provide critical life-saving and livelihood assistance, sustainable recovery and resilience building support to smallholder farmers
FAO supports Caribbean governments after the impact of Hurricane Beryl
11/07/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as part of the United Nations Emergency Technical Teams (UNETT), is deployed in the areas affected by Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean to advance rapid needs assessment and preparation of proposals, under the leadership of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), to restore production and livelihoods.