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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 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
First post quake assessment in Haiti finds hunger spike in affected areas
09/09/2021
Restoring damaged agriculture the only path to recovery, improved food security - FAO
Haiti: Belgium supports vulnerable households affected by COVID-19 (in French)
07/07/2020
Il est essentiel de fournir une action précoce pour préserver les moyens d’existence des ménages vulnérables touchés par la pandémie de la covid-19 en Haïti.
Reviving agricultural production in Haiti in the context of multiple crises
09/06/2020
In collaboration with Haiti’s Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development, FAO carried out the first of a series of agricultural input distributions to support vulnerable farming families to prepare for the spring season in the context of the current pandemic and humanitarian crisis in the country.
Belgium and FAO support the Government of Haiti to improve the livelihoods of drought-affected households in the North-East
18/02/2020
Between 2018 and the first half of 2019, Haiti experienced a long period of drought due to the El Niño phenomenon. As a result, agricultural production decreased by at least 12 percent compared with the previous year, which was already lower than the general average production rate.