FAO emergencies and resilience

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31/05/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is intensifying efforts to address soaring acute food insecurity in the Sudan 
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28/03/2022
The combined effects of conflict, economic crisis, and poor harvests are significantly affecting people’s access to food and will likely double the number of people facing acute hunger in the Sudan to more than 18 million people by September 2022, warned the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on 23 March 2022.
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17/02/2022
The funding aims to support lives and livelihoods of most severely drought-affected farmers and herders
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11/02/2022
FAO senior officials visit affected areas in the rush to save lives and livelihoods
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17/01/2022
In a region reeling from locust invasions and COVID-19, a third-consecutive year of poor rains poses a major threat to food security
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01/12/2021
Sureedo lives on her farm in Qoordumey village, Dolow, Somalia. She grows fruits and vegetables with her family and was among the 2 500 rural farming households affected by the drought and desert locust swarms that have decimated crops and destroyed livelihoods.
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10/09/2021
FAO’s work through the Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme Building food system resilience in protracted crises (FNS-REPRO), is a project funded by the Government of the Netherlands that spans across Somaliland to Sudan and South Sudan over a period of two years
30/07/2021
Efforts to fight a global surge in acute food insecurity are being stymied in several countries by fighting and blockades that cut off life-saving aid to families on the brink of famine, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report issued today.
16/12/2020
A new generation of desert locust swarms is threatening agricultural and pastoral livelihoods and the food security of millions of people in the Horn of Africa and Yemen despite intense efforts to control the pest throughout 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said today.