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![13 July 2020, Kurigram district, Bangladesh Women receive dignity kits from UNFPA, distributed by CARE Bangladesh and local partners. ©UNFPA](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/care_dk_(4)_kurigram_web_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=b8dc1f45_1)
Bangladesh | UN helps monsoon-affected river communities before peak flooding hits
15/07/2020
Release is the fastest funding allocation from the Central Emergency Response Fund in UN history
![FAO's new programme aims to mitigate the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic while strengthening the longer-term resilience of food systems and livelihoods.](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/25008_0005_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=38a57a60_1)
FAO launches new COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme outlining seven key priority areas
14/07/2020
The UN Agency also calls for joint coordinated global response to support food and agriculture
![FAO launched a campaign against peste des petits ruminants (PPR) to vaccinate more than 8 million head of sheep and goats across the Syrian Arab Republic](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/_47a4240_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=62e8c8b_1)
Syrian Arab Republic: FAO supports the global animal health campaign to eradicate peste des petits ruminants
09/07/2020
Animals are a source of both a food, and a source of livelihood in the Syrian Arab Republic.
![Desert Locust swarms in northern Kenya](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/25007_0042_web_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=16f9f113_1)
FAO welcomes additional €15 million from the European Union to fight Desert Locusts and their impacts on food security
08/07/2020
Sustained support critical as new swarms threaten East Africa, Yemen and southwestern Asia.
![La FAO a lancé un projet d’anticipation pour protéger les moyens d’existence des plus vulnérables, avec le soutien du gouvernement du Royaume de Belgique](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/haiti-fao_web_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=31a9adf4_1)
Haiti: Belgium supports vulnerable households affected by COVID-19 (in French)
07/07/2020
Il est essentiel de fournir une action précoce pour préserver les moyens d’existence des ménages vulnérables touchés par la pandémie de la covid-19 en Haïti.
![Bangladesh | FAO provides rice seed to thousands of farmers affected by COVID-19 and Cyclone Amphan](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/fao-rice-seed-distribution_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=7660b0ec_1)
Bangladesh | FAO provides rice seed to thousands of farmers affected by COVID-19 and Cyclone Amphan
03/07/2020
FAO, in partnership with the Department of Agricultural Extension, has distributed rice seed to 24 000 farmers in Cox’s Bazar in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and last month’s super cyclone.
![Implementing anticipatory actions to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on food supply chains and safeguard the livelihoods and food security of vulnerable farming families.](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/senegal_web-story_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=99221922_1)
Sierra Leone: Belgium supports anticipatory actions against the secondary impacts of COVID-19
02/07/2020
Implementing anticipatory actions to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on food supply chains and safeguard the livelihoods and food security of vulnerable farming families.
![Targeting 6 000 families, FAO started the provision of rice seed in Inn Gyin Myaing and Tha Yet Kin Ma Nu Villages in Buthidaung township.](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/04a26666-932e-4edc-9625-f7be5dbb3920-(1)_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=f7b01752_1)
Myanmar | Improving farming productivity in Rakhine State
01/07/2020
Rakhine State, along the western coast of Myanmar, is home to approximately 3.3 million people, many of whom depend on agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture to make a living. However, since 2012, repeated outbreaks of armed conflicts and intercommunal violence, mostly in the central areas of ...
![FAO Syria releases Seed Security Assessment findings](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/img_2047_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=b1bcb921_1)
FAO Syria releases Seed Security Assessment findings
19/06/2020
Damascus - 16 June 2020: Seed availability of major crops has been a serious challenge for Syrian smallholder farmers in the past 10 years due to the damage to the agricultural system caused the conflict.
![Protecting livestock and pastoral livelihoods in Somalia during COVID-19 amid floods and insecurity](/images/devemergencylibraries/news-import/xkp176_thumb.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=e7af6009_1)
Protecting livestock and pastoral livelihoods in Somalia during COVID-19 amid floods and insecurity
19/06/2020
FAO campaign vaccinates 14.5 million goats and treats another 3.5 million animals to safeguard the country’s main economic activity