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UN agencies warn that COVID-19 and worsening inequalities will fuel malnutrition for billions in Asia and the Pacific
21/01/2021
Child and maternal diets particularly vulnerable
East Africa's locust "air force" could be grounded as another wave of the scourge takes flight
20/01/2021
Funding shortfalls threaten continued operations
Mitigating the potential impacts of dry conditions triggered by La Niña in Afghanistan
13/01/2021
During the second half of 2020, a moderate to strong La Niña phenomenon was registered that is causing extreme weather conditions in various parts of the world.
Capacity development instrumental in restoring agricultural production and livelihoods in Myanmar
06/01/2021
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Myanmar’s Department of Agriculture (DoA) recently conducted a series of training sessions to support the capacity development of farmers and technical experts.
Leaving no one behind: Radio initiative educates farmers; pastoralists and fisherfolk across Somalia
23/12/2020
In September 2020, FAO launched a radio training initiative airing various episodes across eight Somali radio stations.
Responding to food insecurity in Mozambique
23/12/2020
Over half a million people require assistance in the north of the country
ISAVET training to strengthen the capacity of veterinarians in field epidemiology
22/12/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease Control (ECTAD), in collaboration with the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), conducted the first phase of the In-Service Applied Veterinary Epidemiology Training (ISAVET).
Support from FAO enables the Central Veterinary Laboratory in Sierra Leone to confirm rabies in dogs
22/12/2020
Positive rabies samples validated by the World Organisation for Animal Health reference centre for rabies at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES).
FAO moves to scale up response to Fall Armyworm as pest continues to spread
22/12/2020
Director-General calls for better information sharing and technology use
Farmers in central Somalia cope with back-to-back threats: first floods and then desert locusts
18/12/2020
“My life depends on farming. My resource is farming, and my family sustains itself with what we farm,” says Ali Mahamud Rubaax, a farmer based in Dharkeynley village, Beletweyne district, central Somalia.