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

On 7 September 2021, FAO and the Government of Burkina Faso signed an agreement to support the development of the livestock sector in the country, thanks to the World Bank’s contribution of USD 2.67 million

FAO in the Syrian Arab Republic will host a Zoominar entitled “Irrigation for agriculture and social cohesion” that will focus on the importance of water and agriculture as key elements in recovery and stability in rural communities

The agreement enables the SNBS to carry out its mandate to collect, manage and report on environmental, food security and market data in the country

Ahead of the global United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 convened in September by United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, the Somali Federal Government in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the European Union (EU), and the French research Centre for Agricultural Development (CIRAD) conducted a stakeholders consultation workshop on the assessment of Food Systems

تدفع الصراعات والأحوال المناخية المتطرفة والصدمات الاقتصادية والتأثيرات المستمرة لجائحة كوفيد-19 والتداعيات المتوالية للحرب في أوكرانيا بملايين الأشخاص في بلدان موزعة في مختلف أرجاء العالم إلى شفير الفقر والجوع - فيما تشهد أسعار الأغذية والوقود ارتفاعًا حادًا يقود البلدان إلى حالة من عدم الاستقرار، بحسب ما جاء في تقرير جديد عن البؤر الساخنة للجوع

انعدام الأمن الغذائي وسوء التغذية يتفاقمان في جميع أنحاء الصومال فيما يزداد خطر حدوث مجاعة وسط انقضاء الموسم من دون هطول الأمطار للمرة الرابعة على التوالي في تاريخ البلاد

منظمة الأغذية والزراعة ترحب بمساهمة قيمتها 12 مليون دولار أمريكي مقدمة من صندوق الأمم المتحدة المركزي لمواجهة الطوارئ، وثمة حاجة ماسة إلى توفير المزيد من الأموال للحيلولة دون وقوع أزمة جوع

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Desert Locust swarms in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - already unprecedented in their size and destructive potential - could swell exponentially and spill over into more countries in East Africa if efforts to deal with the voracious pest are not massively scaled up across the region, FAO warned today.

The United Nations’ (UN) Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has released USD 10 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support a rapid scale-up of control operations aimed at containing the spread of Desert Locust swarms in East Africa.

At the end of 2019, a number of vulnerable households in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region received small ruminants, animal feed and seeds from FAO. Among the beneficiaries of Dori was Ms Haoua Boubacar whose livelihood improved thanks to the support received.

FAO and Belgium support vulnerable populations in recovering their agricultural livelihoods to resume food production while strengthening their resilience

Over 27 million Congolese – one in three people - now critically hungry

In light of recent food security analyses that indicate a growing number of people at risk of food insecurity in northeastern Nigeria, FAO is supporting vulnerable smallholders in the region to produce their own food.

Since 2011, the Syrian conflict has hard hit the families in the country. Family members have been lost, homes and belongings left behind. Food and agriculture practices passed on for generations have been abandoned.

The launch of a training series by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support agricultural entrepreneurship in the Syrian Arab Republic, through its Smallholder Support Programme (SSP), will boost the ability of rural youth and women to develop their businesses, achieve a viable income and improve their livelihoods.

“I am a farmer, and agriculture is my life. One of my biggest challenges was access to water. I grow carrots, potatoes, radish, watercress, onion, parsley, and garden mint.

Farming communities in northeast Syria were hit hard due to cumulative impact of eight years of crisis and changing climate.

Despite control efforts, Desert Locusts are spreading to new areas of Ethiopia in vast numbers.