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FAO has welcomed a $34.4 million contribution from the Government of Japan to deliver a wide range of assistance to improve the food security and nutrition of people in emergency settings, including internally displaced people, refugees and others affected by insecurity and natural hazards. The contribution will fund 17 country and regional projects; including four in the Near East and North Africa (Lebanon, Palestine, Türkiye and Yemen); six in sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia,...

With funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Sri Lanka has delivered 36 000 tonnes of Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertilizer to the Ministry of Agriculture for immediate distribution to all paddy farmers across the country. This is the first shipment of TSP fertilizer to arrive in Sri Lanka since 2021. It will provide essential nutrients to...

In collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has opened a new Representation Office in the Cambodian capital to build on its long history of cooperation, FAO announced today. Cambodia joined FAO as a Member Nation in 1950. FAO opened its first full Representation Office in Phnom Penh in 1994. However, the Organization had been actively working in...

The Category 4 Tropical Cyclones Judy and Kevin that made landfall over Vanuatu earlier this month have left a trail of destruction in their wake, affecting some 80 percent of the population and causing widespread damage, flooding and power outages. With about three-quarters of the population relying on agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is warning about the potential impacts these back-to-back tropical cyclones will...

At its 35th Board meeting, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a USD 43 million project in Cambodia to enhance the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers, local communities and other value chain actors of the Northern Tonle Sap Basin to cope with the increasing threats of climate change. The “Public-Social-Private Partnerships for Ecologically-Sound Agriculture and Resilient Livelihoods in Northern Tonle Sap Basin (PEARL)” project was formulated under the leadership of...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a Philippine funding proposal on “Adapting Philippine Agriculture to Climate Change” at its 35th Board Meeting held in Songdo, Incheon in the Republic of Korea. Under USD 39.2 million, seven-year initiative, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), GCF and the Government of the Philippines will work together to boost the resilience of climate-vulnerable rural smallholder farmers. The project will play...

The 3rd Pacific Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry Meeting concluded, marking the end of the Pacific Week of Agriculture and Forestry (PWAF) 2023, a five-day event held in Nadi, Fiji that brought together governments, NGOs, community-based organizations and the private sector to help chart a future for agriculture and forestry in the region. The meeting, held in person for the first time after the COVID-19 pandemic, was hosted by the...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), to enhance their collaboration to build more sustainable and resilient food systems for the benefit of all in the Pacific Islands. The agreement’s objectives aim at promoting sustainable natural resources utilization and management, biodiversity mainstreaming, ecosystem services, and environment planning and assessment and environmental...

The Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Laurent Thomas, today visited the Natawarau fishing community in Ba, Fiji to present fishing families with Fish Aggregating Devices (known as FADs) used to enhance nearshore fisheries. The FAD materials were presented to the Natawarau Fisherman Association (NFA) and they visited a community benefiting from FAD deployment sites. The sites are maintained in partnership with the FAO-led...