News
Pulling lifesaving data out of thin air, literally
05/08/2024
How a disease surveillance team is preventing zoonotic diseases before they start.
News
The Screwworm menace affecting animals and threatening humans in Senegal
01/08/2024
Senegal’s farmers and vets had never seen anything like it before. An infestation tore across the country, inflicting myiasis, a parasitic invasion...
Highlights
Social protection as a pathway to sustaining peace
03/06/2024
Conflict is a major driver of poverty and hunger.
#WithRefugees: Saving and protecting lives and livelihoods
20/06/2024
When people are forcibly displaced and become refugees, their lives hang in the balance.
In focus
Anticipatory action
FAO is forging a way for a faster, more effective humanitarian system by shifting from disaster response to anticipation.
In focus
Climate action
Actions to make agriculture sustainable are among the most effective measures to help nations adapt to and mitigate climate change.
Publications
Ukraine: Belgium's contribution through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA)
14/06/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aims to provide lifesaving assistance to war-affected rural communities in Ukraine to enable them to secure spring and winter harvests and meet their basic needs.
Ukraine: Food security and agricultural livelihoods assessment (December 2023) – Monitoring report
12/06/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations conducted an assessment of household food security and agricultural livelihoods in Ukraine.
Hunger Hotspots: FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity (June to October 2024 outlook)
05/06/2024
In the current edition of a regular joint bi-yearly report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP)warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger hotspots, including a total of 17 countries or territories and one regional cluster which comprises 4 countries, during the outlook period from June to October 2024