News
The spread of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza calls for stepped up action, FAO says
19/03/2025
Averting losses of hundreds of millions of poultry crucial to mitigate impacts on food security, nutrition and affordability of poultry products
News
Ugbaad symbolizes hope: Somalia looks to boost climate resilient agriculture with new project
13/03/2025
FAO is chief implementing agency for the Green Climate Fund’s first single-country project in Somalia
Highlights
Around the table: Where hunger meets hope and opportunities grow
With the support of FAO and its partners, five distinct livelihoods – wheat farming in Ethiopia, pastoralism in Somalia, poultry keeping in Mozambique, fisheries in South Sudan and sorghum farming in Sudan – help communities rebuild, share and consume the food they produce, gathered around the table.
Strengthening animal health systems for a resilient future: FAO ECTAD’s impact in Asia-Pacific
25/02/2025
FAO’s Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) plays a critical role in advancing animal health and global health security in Asia and the Pacific.
Supporting flood-affected populations in Cameroon through anticipatory action
04/03/2025
In Cameroon, FAO and the European Union supported flood-affected populations in the Logone Birni commune, through the implementation of anticipatory actions.
In focus
Cash and voucher assistance
FAO’s cash and voucher programmes provide people with life-saving means to immediately cope with crises, while protecting their livelihoods and strengthening their resilience to future shocks.
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In focus
Climate action
Actions to make agriculture sustainable are among the most effective measures to help nations adapt to and mitigate climate change.
Publications
Syrian Arab Republic: Emergency and Recovery Plan of Action 2025–2027 - Living document (as of 1 March 2025)
19/03/2025
After nearly 14 years of conflict, the Syrian Arab Republic faces a severe humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 16.7 million people in need of assistance and 14.5 million food insecure.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Urgent call for assistance
19/03/2025
In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, intensified violence pepetrated by non-state armed groups is occurring at the start of harvests and of the lean season, disrupting agricultural production and the supply chain, and leading to food shortages and soaring prices.
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.