FAO emergencies and resilience

Publications
07/2024

The Government of the Japan contributed USD 475 000 to improve the livelihoods and social recognition of Ukrainian and Afghan refugees in Türkiye by providing them and their host community members with employment and livelihood opportunities.

07/2024

The Goverment of Japan contributed USD 600 000 to improve the livestock production and productivity of 750 vulnerable agropastoral households (5 250 people) in Yemen through the provision of livestock production packages and technical training.

07/2024

An Anticipatory Action approach seeks to identify multiple windows of opportunity for action throughout the duration of predictable shocks, such as drought.

07/2024

The United States Agency for International Developed contributed USD 1 640 000 to FAO’s project entitled “Global Health Security Program for enhancing prevention, detection and response to emerging, re-emerging and endemic zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance threats in Egypt”.

07/2024

FAO ECTAD works to build the capacities of its Members to prevent, detect and respond to high-impact animal diseases and other health threats, which can severely harm livelihoods, food security and economies.

07/2024

The United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency, through its Biological Threat Reduction Program, contributed USD 3 505 221 to strengthen central and regional veterinary services in six targeted governorates in Iraq (Anbar, Al-Muthanna, Basra, Duhok, Ninawa and Wasit) by building veterinary staff’s capacities to detect, diagnose and rapidly report highly pathogenic animal diseases and by providing equipment to veterinary laboratories.

07/2024

The Government of Japan contributed USD 1 897 294 to improve the livelihoods and food security of 6 100 livestock-keeping households (44 417 people) in Afghanistan.

07/2024

The Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed USD 4.85 million to improve the livelihoods and food security of 24 030 farming and livestock-keeping households (180 990 people) in Al Dhale and Lahj governorates of Yemen.

07/2024

Through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities, the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium contributed USD 500 000 to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to mitigate the adverse impacts of cyclone Remal on the livelihoods and food security of the most vulnerable farming households in the affected districts.

07/2024

The Government of Germany, through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities −Anticipatory Action Window, contributed USD 900 000 to FAO's project entitled "Anticipatory Actions to cope with expected drought in Madagascar’s Bekily(Androy), Betrokaand AmboasaryAtsimo(Anosy) districts".

07/2024

This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a fifth-round assessment conducted in February and March 2024 in the Central African Republic.

07/2024

The German Federal Foreign Office contributed EUR 4.5 million (USD 4 516 472) to safeguard the agricultural livelihoods and food security of the most vulnerable households ahead of shocks and reduce humanitarian needs by systematically linking risk analysis to Anticipatory Action in high-risk countries.

07/2024

Honduras is experiencing a multifaceted crisis, mainly due to widespread violence, climate extremes and forced population movements.

07/2024

The war in Ukraine continues to escalate with major impacts on Ukraine’s agriculture sector, which used to feed 400 million people annually across the globe.

06/2024

To mitigate the adverse impacts of El Niño on people’s lives and livelihoods in Nicaragua, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has received financial support from the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium, through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities.

06/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as one of the leading operational organizations implementing Anticipatory Action and providing technical advice and normative guidance on corresponding approaches in the agriculture and food security sector, has embarked on a project funded by the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance of the United States Agency for International Development

06/2024

The Government of Canada through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action Window contributed USD 1 million to improve the food security, nutrition and resilience to climate shocks by implementing Anticipatory Actions ahead of El Niño-induced drought in the Dry Corridor of Central America.

06/2024

This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a fifth-round assessment conducted in November and December 2023 in Colombia.

06/2024

The Government of Canada through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action Window contributed USD 1 222 000 to strengthen the capacity of communities and local governance structures in Somalia, and mitigate the impact of El Niño-related floods on the most vulnerable communities.

06/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aims to provide lifesaving assistance to war-affected rural communities in Ukraine to enable them to secure spring and winter harvests and meet their basic needs.