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Pulling lifesaving data out of thin air, literally
05/08/2024
How a disease surveillance team is preventing zoonotic diseases before they start.
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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
Highlights
5 things you should know about how conflict in Sudan is devastating agriculture and people's food security
One year on from the start of the most recent hostilities in Sudan...
Social protection as a pathway to sustaining peace
03/06/2024
Conflict is a major driver of poverty and hunger.
The role of agriculture in addressing acute child malnutrition in the African Drylands
29/07/2024
Acute malnutrition is persistently on the rise worldwide, with children suffering its consequences for their whole lives.
In focus
Anticipatory action
FAO is forging a way for a faster, more effective humanitarian system by shifting from disaster response to anticipation.
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Climate action
Actions to make agriculture sustainable are among the most effective measures to help nations adapt to and mitigate climate change.
Publications
Bangladesh: Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Joint Response Plan 2024
02/08/2024
Nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar are entirely dependent on humanitarian aid to meet their basic food needs. In 2023, reduced food rations and devastating cyclones further compromised food security within the refugee camps, leading to a decline in refugees’ daily food consumption.
Setting up a drought Anticipatory Action trigger mechanism
22/07/2024
An Anticipatory Action approach seeks to identify multiple windows of opportunity for action throughout the duration of predictable shocks, such as drought.
Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Annual report 2023
19/07/2024
The Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) enables the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to take rapid and effective action in response to food and agricultural threats and emergencies.