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Strengthening countries’ capabilities to manage animal health emergencies
18/06/2021
Animal health emergencies remain among the most challenging situations a country can confront and they impact the food security and livelihoods of nearly half of the 900 million people living in poverty who depend on livestock to survive.
Trial error and success: Learning from twenty years of voucher interventions for agriculture in Mozambique
18/06/2021
The webinar will look at the past and present experiences from Mozambique, where the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been implementing voucher interventions over the past 20 years.
Canada contributes over CAD 22 million for FAO’s COVID-19 response
17/06/2021
FAO to boost the food security and livelihoods of vulnerable communities in Africa and Latin America
UN agencies concerned by looming famine in northern Ethiopia call for urgent life-saving action to avert it
10/06/2021
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF call for urgent action to address the dramatic acute food insecurity in northern Ethiopia.
Anticipating the immediate consequences of conflict on agricultural livelihoods and food insecurity
08/06/2021
The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises showed that the number of people facing hunger is on the rise.
FAO supports the Government of Bangladesh to vaccinate cattle against lumpy skin disease in target areas
08/06/2021
When Shukla Parial heard that cattle in her village were dying from a new disease, she feared the worst
Burkina Faso: anticipating the immediate consequences of conflict on agricultural livelihoods and food security
08/06/2021
In the Liptako Gourma cross-border areas of Burkina Faso, Mali and the Niger, the number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity (CH Phase 3+) increased from about 1 million to 4.4 million between 2015 and 2020.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: anticipating the immediate consequences of conflict on agricultural livelihoods and food security
08/06/2021
The security context in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains of concern, causing repeated population displacements.
Central African Republic: anticipating the immediate consequences of conflict on agricultural livelihoods and food security
08/06/2021
According to the latest IPC analysis, about half of the population in the Central African Republic is facing high levels of acute food insecurity, where already more than 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.
FAO in Bangladesh and Japan provide agricultural machinery to vulnerable people in Haor wetland communities
04/06/2021
FAO and the Government of Japan have provided emergency assistance to highly vulnerable Haor wetland communities in Bangladesh affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.