FAO emergencies and resilience

Publications
08/2024

This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a nineteenth-round assessment conducted in June 2024 in Yemen.

08/2024

The Government of the United States of America, through USAID, contributed USD 6.5 million to the FAO project, "2023 Emergency Livelihood Response Programme (ELRP) in South Sudan", which was implemented from 27 March 2023 to 28 March 2024.

08/2024

The Government of Japan contributed USD 1 851 851 to improve the rice and corn production of smallholder farmers in the Philippines through efficient fertilizer use and capacity building.

08/2024

The Government of Japan contributed USD 12 843 911 to improve the livelihoods and food security of 81 400 farming, livestock-keeping and landless households (695 463 people) in Afghanistan.

08/2024

The Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) enables the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to take rapid and effective action in response to food and agricultural threats and emergencies.

08/2024

The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland contributed USD 3 750 000 (GBP 3 million) to the FAO project, "FAO’s El Niño preparedness, mitigation and response programme", which was implemented from 21 August 2023 to 31 March 2024.

08/2024

The European Union contributed EUR 4 million (USD 4 854 368) to the FAO project, "Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable populations to food crises and climate stresses in South Sudan", which was implemented from 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2023.

08/2024

The European Union contributed EUR 2 million (USD 2 277 200) to the FAO project, "South Sudan rural development: Strengthening smallerholders resilience in Northern Bahr el Ghazal", which was implemented from 15 April 2019 to 14 April 2023.

08/2024

The Government of Libya, through the African Development Bank, contributed USD 280 364 to strengthen the national capacity to increase water productivity and monitor water consumption using remote sensing, and improve food security and climate resilience in Libya.

08/2024

The protracted crisis in northeastern Nigeria has resulted in persistently high levels of acute malnutrition, with 1.5 million children under five years of age and over 200 000 pregnant and breastfeeding women acutely malnourished.

08/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee, the World Food Programme and the Department of Disaster Management Affairs conducted an assessment to understand the impact of El Niño on agricultural production and livelihoods in ten districts – Balaka, Blantyre, Chikwawa, Chiradzulu, Dowa, Machinga, Mangochi, Nsanje, Phalombe and Thyolo.

08/2024

The Government of the United States of America contributed USD 150 250 000 million to the FAO project, "Providing emergency life-saving food and livelihood support to drought-affected communities in Somalia", which was implemented from 4 May 2022 to 31 March 2024.

08/2024

The Government of Japan contributed USD 2 million to the FAO project, "Mitigating the impact of drought for the most vulnerable pastoral and agropastoral communities in Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda", which was implemented from 22 March 2023 to 21 March 2024.

08/2024

The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands contributed USD 28 million to the FAO project, "Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO): Building food system resilience in protracted crises", which was implemented from 1 October 2019 to 31 March 2023.

08/2024

On 26 May 2024, Cyclone Remal struck Bangladesh, unleashing severe floods and landslides across several districts.

08/2024

Nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar are entirely dependent on humanitarian aid to meet their basic food needs. In 2023, reduced food rations and devastating cyclones further compromised food security within the refugee camps, leading to a decline in refugees’ daily food consumption.

07/2024

Zambia is experiencing a severe El Niño-induced drought that has resulted in reduced agricultural production, water scarcity and crop failure. So far, 1.8 million smallholder farmers have been significantly impacted.

07/2024

The Government of Germany contributed USD 132 104 to enhance anticipatory emergency response capacity for improved food security of populations living in locust infested areas of Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

07/2024

The Government of Ireland contributed EUR 850 300 to protect the food security and livelihoods of 11 035 rural households (29 187 people) in conflict-affected oblasts in Ukraine.

07/2024

The Goverment of Japan contributed USD 5 million to protect the food security and livelihoods in newly accessible war-affected areas in Ukraine, while laying the foundation for resilient agrifood systems.