Entrevista a Cyril Ferrand, Jefe del equipo de resiliencia para el África oriental de la FAO, y Carla Mucavi, Representante de la FAO en Kenya

Under its Smallholder Support Programme funded by the European Union, FAO has inspired young farmers and influenced them to become more profit-oriented through its entrepreneurial training programme called Nabta.

Un proyecto de emergencia de 195 millones de USD busca proporcionar ayuda vital y para la subsistencia a los pequeños agricultores

From 19 to 21 August 2021, joint emergency missions were deployed by the Ministries of Animal Resources, Environment and Water and Forests, FAO and Health Protection Groups for the surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in migratory bird resting areas and live poultry markets

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

Los conflictos, las condiciones climáticas extremas, las conmociones económicas, las consecuencias prolongadas de la COVID-19 y los efectos en cadena de la guerra en Ucrania...

La inseguridad alimentaria y la malnutrición se agravan en toda Somalia mientras aumenta el riesgo de hambruna en medio de una histórica cuarta temporada de lluvias fallida

La FAO recibe con agrado la contribución de 12 millones de dólares de los EE.UU. del Fondo Central para la Acción en Casos de Emergencia de las Naciones Unidas, pero se necesitan más fondos de manera urgente para evitar una crisis de hambre

Unas 46 000 personas reciben asistencia durante la campaña de siembra de patata de primavera

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.