Women vaccinators: driving changes in rural Bangladesh

30/05/2024

In rural Bangladesh, 75% of farmers rear poultry in their backyards, mainly women. However, this vital income and protein source faces threats from emerging diseases, leading to high mortality rates due to poor hygiene and lack of vaccination.

Conflict and climate change require collective action to address food insecurity

23/04/2024

Conflict and hunger are inextricably linked to one another. Conflict often leads to severe humanitarian crises, resulting in heightened levels of hunger in specific regions.

Why rural women pay the highest price of the climate crisis

05/03/2024

Climate change disproportionately impacts women farmers in low- and middle-income countries, causing billions of dollars of losses among female-headed farming households.

Rein Paulsen: Focus emergency responses on rural livelihoods

17/04/2023

Do you know that more than 70 per cent of the people affected by disasters are rural farmers and fisherfolk? And that only 4 per cent of emergency assistance targets their needs? In this conversation with the Director of FAO's Office of Emergencies and Resilience, Rein Paulsen, find out why there is an urgent need to improve emergency responses globally - at a time of unprecedented need.

Desert Locust outbreak could provoke humanitarian crisis

02/02/2021

The Desert Locust outbreak in the Horn of Africa could provoke a humanitarian crisis, warns the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).