Rome, Italy - The recently published FAO report ‘Agriculture-related investments in disaster risk reduction and management’, distributed at the UNISDR Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction last week, looks at...

"The negative impacts of soil erosion are ever more evident and the need to work jointly ever more urgent," FAO Deputy Director-General, Climate and Natural Resources, Maria Helena Semedo, said today while opening a three-day symposium focusing on enhancing how...

Pyongyang/Rome - A United Nations food security assessment in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as North Korea) has found that following the worst harvest in 10 years, due to dry spells, heatwaves and flooding, about 10.1 million...

At 56 years old, Soalay has seen more droughts than he can count in Ankily, his village in southern Madagascar. Like many, he has been forced to migrate to find work when the crops have failed, trading chickens in Mahajanga,...

Eventos climáticos adversos en el Corredor Seco centroamericano dejan a 1.4 millones de personas en necesidad de asistencia alimentaria urgente. 2.2 millones de personas en El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua perdieron sus cosechas por lluvias y sequías, de las cuales...