FAO emergencies and resilience

Publications
02/2025

In Mali, persistent insecurity and recurring floods deprive populations of their agricultural livelihoods.

02/2025

The ongoing war in Ukraine is significantly impacting the forestry sector, with accumulated damages of USD 3.3 billion at the end of 2023.

02/2025

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has the world’s highest number of people in acute food insecurity.

02/2025

In Cameroon, the protracted sociopolitical crisis in the North-West and South-West, Boko Haram attacks in the east, severe flooding in the Far North, and rising food prices continue to drive acute food insecurity.

02/2025

El Niño-induced drought has left millions of people in Malawi acutely food insecure. With over 80 percent of the population employed by the agriculture sector, agricultural livelihoods and the country’s economic stability have been severely impacted.

02/2025

Entering its fourth year of war, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine remains critical. Displacement continues as people flee from their homes amid escalating fighting along the frontline.

02/2025

Food is the great connector. It is survival and nourishment. It is family and tradition. It is hope and resilience. It is love. Sharing food around the table is an experience that binds us all.

02/2025

The Government of Japan contributed USD 3 million to improve the livelihoods and food security of 6 619 households (16 745 people) of whom 3 206 female-headed, and 1 898 smallholder farmers in Ukraine.

02/2025

The World Food Programme contributed USD 303 425 to support 556 rural households in Mykolaivska oblast (1 497 people), of whom 69 percent female-headed, impacted by mines and explosive remnants of war to help restore agricultural production in spring 2024.

02/2025

This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of the seventh-round assessment conducted in February 2025 in Cameroon.

02/2025

A geospatial impact assessment was conducted to detect the significant negative changes** of vegetation cover for forest categories during the conflict of 2023-2024 in Lebanon.

02/2025

A geospatial impact assessment was conducted to detect the significant negative changes** of vegetation cover for crop categories during the conflict of 2023-2024 in Lebanon.

02/2025

A geospatial impact assessment was conducted to detect the significant negative changes** of vegetation cover for agricultural land during the conflict of 2023-2024 in Lebanon.

02/2025

A geospatial impact assessment was conducted to detect the significant negative changes** of vegetation cover for cropland during the conflict of 2023-2024 in Lebanon.

02/2025

A geospatial impact assessment was conducted to detect the significant negative changes** of vegetation cover for agricultural land during the conflict of 2023-2024 in Lebanon.

01/2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO’s) La Niña Anticipatory Action and Response Plan, first launched in August 2024 and updated in January 2025, seeks urgent funding to address the escalating risks and potential impacts on agriculture and food security.

01/2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) partnered with other members of the IPC Technical Working Group in Madagascar (Bureau National de Gestion des Risques et des Catastrophes, Vulnerability Assessment Committee, l’Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Elevage, and the World Food Programme) to assess the impact of El Niño on agricultural production and livelihoods in thirty-six districts.

01/2025

The ongoing war in Ukraine continues to erode rural resilience and disrupt agricultural livelihoods and supply chains, particularly in frontline oblasts such as Khersonska and Odeska.

01/2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the National Statistical Institute and the Civil Protection Services, conducted an assessment to evaluate the impact of El Niño‑induced events on agricultural production and livelihoods in 11 municipalities located in Angola’s four southwestern provinces – Benguela, Cunene, Huíla and Namibe.

01/2025

The El Niño phenomenon is a natural climatic event characterized by the anomalous warming of waters of the intertropical Pacific Ocean, causing changes in climate patterns around the world.