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FAO's emergency activities

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Contents

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Foreword

Emergencies, the international response and FAO

Disasters come in many forms

Emergencies take a heavy toll

Preparing for and responding to emergencies

FAO's multiple roles

Partnerships

Coordinating FAO's emergency activities

FAO in action

Vaccination drive halts cattle plague in Kenya and United Republic of Tanzania

Early warning prevents famine in drought-stricken southern Africa and Horn of Africa

Fier fighting in Turkey and Uganda

Tackling the locust scourge in the Near East and North Africa

Prompt relief averts famine in Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Storm warning systems for Indian fishermen

Defending against hurricanes in the Caribbean

Fighting pests in Iraq's no-fly zones

Restoring production on Filipino farmers' fields buried by volcanic eruption

Rebuilding a nation after catastrophe in Rwanda

Relief, rehabilitation and recovery in the Great Lakes region of central Africa

Getting things together again in Haiti

Boosting rice production in Cambodia

Seeds for farmers in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rehabilitation and reconstruction in the aftermath of war in Afghanistan

FAO's role in emergencies


The assistance of Government of Indonesia through the Indonesian Farmers' Fund, the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Government of Switzerland, Swiss FAO Secretariat in publishing this document is gratefully acknowledged.

 

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FAO 1997