Building resilience in Africa
2.5 million people need immediate humanitarian assistance, and one in five Central Africans has been internally displaced. These figures are likely to rise as the conflict places millions at risk of a full-scale food and nutrition security crisis due to low production coupled with prevailing chronic countrywide malnutrition, extreme poverty and inappropriate sanitation.
South Sudan is at a risk of famine unless humanitarian assistance is provided now, FAO Deputy Director-General for Operations Dan Gustafson told a humanitarian pledging conference for the country in Oslo (May 2014).
Ending Hunger
Minimizing food losses during storage and transport, and waste of food by retailers and consumers; empowering consumer choice through appropriate labeling; commitments by producers, retailers and consumers within all nations; achieving progress through financial incentives, collective pledges, locally-relevant technologies and changed behavior.
International Kungfu superstar and renowned Hollywood film actor Jackie Chan has joined FAO in the fight against hunger. In Jackie Chan visited FAO projects in Ethiopia to highlight the achievements in the fight against hunger.