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The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund donates $1 million to efforts to combat Desert Locust in East Africa
07/02/2020
The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) has donated $1 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to combat the worsening Desert Locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa.
Drought-affected households in Ethiopia benefit from FAO cash-transfer project
05/02/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided 4 500 drought-affected pastoral households in the Somali region of Ethiopia with unconditional cash transfers to meet their immediate needs and invest in productive activities.
Despite improvements Somalia’s food security vulnerable to desert locust outbreak
03/02/2020
An estimated 4.1 million people are acutely food insecure in Somalia, according to the latest post-Deyr assessment released by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).
FAO appeals for urgent support to fight worsening Desert Locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa
30/01/2020
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today the Desert Locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa threatened to provoke a humanitarian crisis and appealed for urgent funding to tackle the outbreak in order to protect livelihoods and food security.
Mitigating the effects of the crisis in Burkina Faso’s Centre North and Sahel region
30/01/2020
At the end of 2019, a number of vulnerable households in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region received small ruminants, animal feed and seeds from FAO. Among the beneficiaries of Dori was Ms Haoua Boubacar whose livelihood improved thanks to the support received.
UN releases USD10 million in rapid support for Desert Locust campaign in East Africa
24/01/2020
The United Nations’ (UN) Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has released USD 10 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support a rapid scale-up of control operations aimed at containing the spread of Desert Locust swarms in East Africa.
Desert Locusts spread to new areas in Ethiopia
20/01/2020
Despite control efforts, Desert Locusts are spreading to new areas of Ethiopia in vast numbers.
Massive border-spanning campaign needed to combat locust upsurge in East Africa
20/01/2020
Desert Locust swarms in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - already unprecedented in their size and destructive potential - could swell exponentially and spill over into more countries in East Africa if efforts to deal with the voracious pest are not massively scaled up across the region, FAO warned today.
FAO and OCHA support 9 400 vulnerable farmers in northeast Syria to improve wheat production
15/01/2020
Farming communities in northeast Syria were hit hard due to cumulative impact of eight years of crisis and changing climate.
Solar powered water pumps help Yemeni farmers restore their agricultural livelihoods
13/01/2020
“I am a farmer, and agriculture is my life. One of my biggest challenges was access to water. I grow carrots, potatoes, radish, watercress, onion, parsley, and garden mint.