Lessons learned and good practices from FAO Peacebuilding Fund projects
07/09/2023
The Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) is the United Nations' instrument of first resort for responding to violent conflict. It was created in 2005 as a multi-year funding mechanism to support post-conflict and peacebuilding activities. Since 2018, the portfolio of projects [...]
A comprehensive agricultural livelihoods approach in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement
18/08/2023
Refugee Integration in Uganda - FAO Project
Uganda hosts over 1.5 million refugees, primarily displaced due to violence and civil unrest in neighbouring South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Around 95 percent live in settlements across eleven refugee-hosting [...]
Improving resilience through knowledge sharing and the provision of productive assets in Dosso and Maradi regions
30/06/2023
In the Niger, rural women are at the forefront of the agricultural value chain and at the core of household feeding. Nevertheless, they have restricted access to productive resources such as land, agricultural inputs, finance, credit, extension services and technology, [...]
Contributing to the prevention of acute malnutrition among children in pastoral households through nutrition-sensitive livestock programming in Marsabit County
23/05/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Washington State University and other stakeholders, undertook a research-oriented project, Livestock for Health (L4H), to address the availability issues of essential [...]
03/04/2023
The status of women in agrifood systems report uses extensive new data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face working in agrifood systems globally. The report shows how increasing women’s empowerment and [...]