Food Outlook report assesses global supply and demand for major food commodities

Damascus - 16 June 2020: Seed availability of major crops has been a serious challenge for Syrian smallholder farmers in the past 10 years due to the damage to the agricultural system caused the conflict.

FAO campaign vaccinates 14.5 million goats and treats another 3.5 million animals to safeguard the country’s main economic activity

Rakhine State, along the western coast of Myanmar, is home to approximately 3.3 million people, many of whom depend on agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture to make a living. However, since 2012, repeated outbreaks of armed conflicts and intercommunal violence, mostly in the central areas of ...

Implementing anticipatory actions to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on food supply chains and safeguard the livelihoods and food security of vulnerable farming families.

FAO, in partnership with the Department of Agricultural Extension, has distributed rice seed to 24 000 farmers in Cox’s Bazar in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and last month’s super cyclone. 

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. 

Sustained support critical as new swarms threaten East Africa, Yemen and southwestern Asia.

Animals are a source of both a food, and a source of livelihood in the Syrian Arab Republic.

The UN Agency also calls for joint coordinated global response to support food and agriculture

Release is the fastest funding allocation from the Central Emergency Response Fund in UN history

FAO thanks the Canadian government for consistent backing of efforts to contain the desert locust upsurge

According to the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2020-2029, the pandemic is expected to depress demand in the next few years and could further undermine food security.

 

By targeting affected vulnerable communities, the project aims to strengthen farmers’ capacity to become resilient to future shocks.

FAO and WFP collaborate on a unique analysis of countries on the precipice of what could be the worst food crisis in generations

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Uganda has shown its support for veterinary health workers involved in the management of deadly livestock diseases by donating an assortment of personal protective equipment (PPE) worth USD 50 000 to the Ugandan Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries.

Targeted households to benefit from livestock feed, crop seeds, and cash transfers

Belgium contributes to an anticipatory action project aimed at enhancing the food security and nutrition of populations affected by COVID-19 in Zimbabwe

Economic crisis, conflict, floods, desert locusts – and now COVID-19 – could wipe out improvements in food security in parts of Yemen, UN agencies warn.

The added support will help to step up control efforts in Africa and Asia and to improve early warning and forecasting systems.