News
Japan contributes $11.9 million to scale up FAO’s emergency and resilience activities
21/02/2025
The funding will support 14 critical projects across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East
News
Green Climate Fund greenlights two major FAO-led projects to strengthen climate resilience in Kenya and Serbia
18/02/2025
The initiatives worth over $130 million will benefit over 6 million people and address the interconnected challenges of climate change, agriculture,...
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.
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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In focus
Forced displacement
The increasingly protracted nature of forced displacement calls for sustainable and durable solutions.
Publications
Ukraine: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025
14/02/2025
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.
Cameroon: Humanitarian Response Plan 2025
14/02/2025
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.
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.