FAO senior officials visit affected areas in the rush to save lives and livelihoods

The funding aims to support lives and livelihoods of most severely drought-affected farmers and herders

FAO Director-General highlights need to safeguard access to food, reinforce food security

Centrality of Agriculture to Ukraine and the Region

Team on ground regrouped; strengthened with surge personnel; Declaration of corporate scale-up response

بيان صحفي مشترك لمنظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة، وبرنامج الأغذية العالمي، ومنظمة الأمم المتحدة للطفولة

A prolonged, multi-season drought is driving acute food insecurity across the Horn of Africa, with millions of people on the brink of starvation

Aid to keep rural, agriculture-dependent families on their feet is needed at massive scale to stave off catastrophe

QU Dongyu addresses FAO Members as they convene to discuss the impact of the conflict on global food supply

المجتمع الدولي يتعهد بإتاحة قرابة 1.79 مليار يورو للتصدي للمخاطر الإنسانية التي لم يسبق لها نظير التي تهدد المنطقة

يشمل البرنامج ثمانية بلدان أفريقية، حيث يقوم بدعم الإصلاحات وقرارات الاستثمار العام القائمة على الأدلة لمدة خمس سنوات

The Centre will build Somalia’s national capacity to independently manage desert locusts in the country

A renewed Desert Locust control campaign has been launched in the Yemeni governorates of Lahj

The desert locust invasion in Somalia has significantly affected the country’s food security, with successive generations of swarms destroying vital crops and pastures

The war in Ukraine is affecting the food security of the most vulnerable rural households across the country

Opinion article by Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

ثمة حاجة ماسة إلى أكثر من 115 مليون دولار أمريكي لمد يد العون للمزارعين الأوكرانيين والأسر الريفية حتى ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2022

Due to worsening drought, up to 5 million people will require urgent humanitarian assistance to prevent worse food security outcomes in Somalia...

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.

Farmers and herders are vital if the country is to climb out of a hunger trap, says FAO.