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Food crisis tightens its grip on 19 ‘hunger hotspots’ as famine looms in the Horn of Africa – new report
21/09/2022
Rising conflict, weather extremes, and economic instability aggravated by the lingering impacts of COVID-19 and the ripple effects of the war in Ukraine are among the key drivers
FAO welcomes $83 million USA contribution to emergency and resilience programmes
01/09/2022
Funding to boost efforts in Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Sudan; Sahel and Coastal West Africa also among the list of recipients
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Tigray: FAO scales up procurement of fertilizers thanks to a $10 million loan from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund
08/08/2022
The funds have helped to speed up delivery of agricultural inputs to farmers during the critical planting season
Drought in the Horn of Africa: FAO appeals for $172 million to help avert famine and humanitarian catastrophe
27/06/2022
Rapid Response and Mitigation Plan focuses on four epicentres: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
Tigray: Time is running out to avert worrying levels of food insecurity
22/06/2022
Farmers in parts of northern Ethiopia are in serious danger of losing the main planting season (June-August) if they do not receive urgent support from the international community to sow their fields, which would further deteriorate the already serious food security situation in the region
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FAO Desert Locust campaign: East Africa upsurge suppressed, Kenya free from Desert Locust
15/06/2022
Interview with Cyril Ferrand, FAO’s Resilience Team Leader for East Africa, and Carla Mucavi, FAO Country Representative in Kenya
FAO and WFP warn of looming widespread food crisis as hunger threatens stability in dozens of countries
06/06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today issued a stark warning of multiple, looming food crises, driven by conflict, climate shocks, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic
FAO and Belgium assist communities in Kenya to avert a hunger crisis
26/04/2022
A prolonged, multi-season drought is driving acute food insecurity across the Horn of Africa, with millions of people on the brink of starvation
FAO launches new phase of agriculture policy initiative with $11 million grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
06/04/2022
The programme covers eight African countries, supporting reforms and evidence-based public investment decisions over a five-year period
Drought in the Horn of Africa: FAO welcomes a €20 million contribution from Germany to avert hunger crisis
17/02/2022
The funding aims to support lives and livelihoods of most severely drought-affected farmers and herders