The 2024 edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, to be officially launched on July 24, takes a deep dive into salient themes regarding financing for development, in particular financing for food security and nutrition to meet the targets of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, with the aim of creating better identifying opportunities, strengthening accountability and traceability, and ultimately improving financing productivity.

The Government of the United States of America contributed USD 1.6 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to improve food availability and access for the most vulnerable households in Yemen by strengthening the capacity of the Food Security and Agriculture Cluster.

Gita Adikhari realised something significant had changed when her farm in the Jhapa District of eastern Nepal yielded nearly double the amount she would normally harvest. The bumper potato crop was not by chance, but as a result of learnings from a Farmer Field School (FFS) run by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with funding from the Green Climate Fund.

With the aim to strengthen the capacities of veterinarians and para-veterinary professionals to improve country’s capacity of detection and response to infectious diseases, including zoonotic diseases that can be transmitted to humans, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture (MAFS), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in the framework of the Global Health Security (GHS) Program launched the Second Cohort of In-Service Applied Veterinary Epidemiology Training (ISAVET) program in Sierra Leone.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as part of the United Nations Emergency Technical Teams (UNETT), is deployed in the areas affected by Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean to advance rapid needs assessment and preparation of proposals, under the leadership of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), to restore production and livelihoods.

New projections highlight potential climate risks to exploitable fish biomass for nearly all regions of the world's ocean, including top producer countries and those with high reliance on aquatic foods, according to a report released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

An initiative to build resilient agrifood systems grounded in diverse, nutritious, and climate-adapted crops grown in healthy soils, today marked another milestone through a new partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  and CIMMYT, a CGIAR Research Center. FAO and CIMMYT signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a Partnership for the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) initiative.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched the 2024 Rainy Season Input Distribution in Maiduguri, Borno State. This aims to bolster food security and resilience in the region. Held on Monday 10 June 2024 in Dusuman, Jere Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State, the event marks the beginning of distributing essential crop production inputs for Nigeria main agricultural season across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) States.

The 36th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI36) began today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. The Committee on Fisheries (COFI) is the largest global gathering of policymakers, experts and partners in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. This week’s (8-12 July) COFI36 meeting will focus on the vital role of fisheries and aquaculture in tackling food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty, stressing their ability to alleviate hunger, drive sustainable growth, and reverse environmental degradation.

As part of its ongoing efforts to maintain the preparedness  to fight the desert locust, especially in invasion countries, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations conducted a crucial refresher training for locust officers from frontline counties as well as crop protection officers from Plant Protection and Food Safety Directorate. Participants were equipped with principles of desert locust survey and reporting.

The benchmark for world food commodity prices was unchanged in June, as increases in international quotations for vegetable oils, sugar and dairy products offset a decrease in those for cereals, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a set of globally-traded food commodities, averaged 120.6 points in June, the same as its revised figure for May. The index is now 2.1 percent lower than its year-earlier value and 24.8 percent below its March 2022 peak.

With the aim to share knowledge to move toward more context-specific, conflict-sensitive, inclusive and accountable Anticipatory Action programming, “Capturing emerging and good practices to improve community engagement in Anticipatory Action”, funded by the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance of the United States Agency for International Development, FAO has developed a compendium of experiences and good practices.

Emerging economies have increasingly driven global agricultural market developments over the last 20 years and are projected to continue to do so over the next decade, but with regional shifts linked to changing demographics and new economic affluence, according to a report released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Alarming new food security projections for Sudan published today show that Sudan is facing a devastating hunger catastrophe on a scale not seen since the Darfur crisis in the early 2000s, warn the heads of three United Nations agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have been warning of rapid deterioration in conditions for the people of Sudan, particularly children, as food security is torn apart by war that has ravaged the country for more than a year.

Thirty-eight national-level plant health practitioners, including phytosanitary officers and field technicians in Guinea-Bissau, received training to empower them with field-applied or practical scientific approaches and state-of-the-art digital tools designed for timely pest detection, surveillance, diagnostics, and prevention. Reducing the impact of pests on crops helps to foster food security and safe trade.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) raises alarm over high  risk of famine across the whole Gaza Strip, as long as conflict continues, and sustained and at-scale humanitarian access is restricted, according to a new report published by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) global initiative.

The Government of Canada through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action Window contributed USD 1 million to improve the food security, nutrition and resilience to climate shocks by implementing Anticipatory Actions ahead of El Niño-induced drought on vulnerable communities in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, reaching over 6 000 people, of whom 57% women.

The Government of Canada through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action Window contributed USD 1 222 000 to strengthen the capacity of communities and local governance structures in Somalia and mitigate the impact of El Niño-related floods on the most vulnerable communities, reaching over 45 000 people, of which 49% are women.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have announced the signing of the USD 25 million TRANSFORM project, a key component of the broader multi-partner Johwar Offstream Storage Programme (JOSP). The TRANSFORM project aims to improve food security and resilience in Somalia by rehabilitating critical infrastructure and promoting climate smart agriculture for smallholder farmers in Jowhar.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) this week helped 28 countries to unlock $70 million in financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to address urban sustainability, groundwater management, biodiversity loss, climate change and land degradation.