FAO emergencies and resilience

Near East and North Africa

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Protracted conflicts and economic hardships are the main drivers of high acute food insecurity and malnutrition in the Near East and North Africa. The region is also one of the world’s most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Highly dependent on imports, the agri-food sector in the Near East and North Africa has been severely affected by increases in the prices of basic food items and agricultural inputs due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and of the war in Ukraine. Of most concern, three conflict-affected countries - the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen - are among the top ten countries with the highest number of people in Crisis or worse levels of food insecurity in the world.
News
News
Gaza: FAO delivers more than 2 400 veterinary kits to protect livestock and sustain livelihoods
12/08/2024

From FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa

News
Restricted local food production exacerbates the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip
05/08/2024

Intensified hostilities, access constraints and damage to agriculture have heightened acute food insecurity for Gazans

News
Sudan is facing an unprecedented hunger catastrophe, say UN agency chiefs
27/06/2024

New data reveals that over 750,000 people are experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity with 25.6 million people in crisis levels of hunger

Publications
Publications
The Sudan: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022

Thirty percent of Sudanese are expected to need life-sustaining support in 2022, the highest number in the past decade. A combination of shocks and...

Publications
Syrian Arab Republic: Precipitation analysis
10/2021

This technical paper provides an analysis of the spatio-temporal trends of precipitation in the Syrian Arab Republic from 1980–2021, an analysis of...

Publications
Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen: Desert locust crisis appeal, January 2020–December 2021
07/2021

The worst desert locust outbreak in decades is underway in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen, where tens of thousands of hectares of cropland and...

Multimedia
Video
Famine is imminent in Gaza Strip - Interview with Rein Paulsen
19/03/2024

The food security situation in Gaza is catastrophic; famine is imminent in the Northern Governorates and there is a risk of famine across the rest of...

Video
Support beekeepers to restore honey production in Yemen
19/05/2022

The livelihoods of Yemeni beekeepers have been severely disrupted by ongoing conflict and economic shocks.