The agricultural sector is key to Somalia’s economy, but it is hampered by low productivity, high post-harvest loses and increasing climate volatility.
One of the most economically destructive plant pests in the world is the Moroccan locust.
For the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, global hunger remained relatively unchanged from 2021 to 2022, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023.
In Afghanistan, FAO is witnessing a revolutionary and transformative way of ending acute food insecurity crises quickly. In late 2021, FAO and partners started receiving significant amount of funding for emergency agriculture assistance at scale right at the start.
Prisca left South Sudan in 2017 along with 668 000 people, mostly women and children, to find a place of refuge for her and her family.