News
Gaza: Immediate action must combine emergency relief with the restoration of local food production
28/01/2025
Latest geospatial assessment from FAO and UNOSAT highlights devastating impact of conflict on agrifood systems infrastructure
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Food insecurity deepens in Lebanon following conflict, new report shows
22/01/2025
Thirty percent of population in Lebanon faces acute food insecurity as 2025 begins, malnutrition risk remains.
Highlights
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From local pickle producer to regional exporter: A Syrian entrepreneur's journey
Empowering Syrian youth to rebuild their resilience and cultivate new beginnings through agribusiness opportunities.
Empowering women through beekeeping in Bamyan province, Afghanistan
19/12/2024
In June 2024, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO provided 200 women in Bamyan and in Kahmard district with beekeeping packages along with technical training.
FAO’s response to the post-ceasefire recovery in the Gaza Strip. Interview with Beth Bechdol
28/01/2025
The 15-month conflict in the Gaza Strip has resulted in unprecedented acute food insecurity levels, with communities on the brink of starvation. Over 2 million people need urgent need assistance.
In focus
Social protection
Worldwide, 80 percent of the extreme poor live in rural areas. Of these, 76 percent work in agriculture, and a great share of them relies on subsistence farming.
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Forced displacement
The increasingly protracted nature of forced displacement calls for sustainable and durable solutions.
Publications
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La Niña: Anticipatory Action and Response Plan, January 2025 update
24/01/2025
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.
Ukraine: Emergency assistance for spring crop production in southern Ukraine
20/01/2025
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.
FAO in the 2025 humanitarian appeals
04/12/2024
In 2024, escalating violence drove extreme hunger crises from Gaza and the Sudan to Haiti. The number of people facing, or projected to face, catastrophic hunger conditions more than doubled, rising from 705 000 in 2023 to 1.9 million people by mid-2024 across five countries/territories.