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Worsening hunger grips West and Central Africa amid persistent conflict and economic turmoil
15/04/2024
Nearly 55 million people in West and Central Africa will struggle to feed themselves in the June-August 2024 lean season, according to the March 2024 Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis released by the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS).
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Not a person but a porridge, Tom Brown fights malnutrition and boosts incomes in Nigeria
21/02/2024
A porridge created from local ingredients provides nutrition and profits to crisis-affected women
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Scaling up emergency agricultural assistance to fight food crises in Nigeria
15/12/2023
Visiting FAO emergency and resilience project sites in Borno state
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Learning about the needs of households and traders in Nigeria to understand the difficulties they face
28/09/2023
One enumerator’s experience with face-to-face data collection
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Food insecurity and malnutrition in West and Central Africa at 10-year high as crisis spreads to coastal countries
20/04/2023
From the FAO Regional Office for Africa
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In 2023, FAO will require $1.9 billion to reach 48 million people with life-saving and livelihood assistance
01/12/2022
Acute food insecurity soars driven by conflicts, extreme weather events, rising food prices
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Agricultural aid: a game changer in tackling hunger crises
13/10/2022
FAO Director-General calls for increased investments in agriculture and resilient agrifood systems to prevent famine in the run-up to the World Food Day
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Food crisis tightens its grip on 19 ‘hunger hotspots’ as famine looms in the Horn of Africa – new report
21/09/2022
Rising conflict, weather extremes, and economic instability aggravated by the lingering impacts of COVID-19 and the ripple effects of the war in Ukraine are among the key drivers
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FAO and WFP warn of looming widespread food crisis as hunger threatens stability in dozens of countries
06/06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today issued a stark warning of multiple, looming food crises, driven by conflict, climate shocks, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic
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The Sahel and Lake Chad Regions: FAO joins the global effort to reinforce response to the food security crisis
07/04/2022
International community pledges around €1.79 billion to address unprecedented humanitarian threats in the region