FAO emergencies and resilience
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Conflict and climate change require collective action to address food insecurity
23/04/2024
Conflict and hunger are inextricably linked to one another. Conflict often leads to severe humanitarian crises, resulting in heightened levels of hunger in specific regions.
Why rural women pay the highest price of the climate crisis
05/03/2024
Climate change disproportionately impacts women farmers in low- and middle-income countries, causing billions of dollars of losses among female-headed farming households.
Rein Paulsen: Focus emergency responses on rural livelihoods
17/04/2023
Do you know that more than 70 per cent of the people affected by disasters are rural farmers and fisherfolk? And that only 4 per cent of emergency assistance targets their needs? In this conversation with the Director of FAO's Office of Emergencies and Resilience, Rein Paulsen, find out why there is an urgent need to improve emergency responses globally - at a time of unprecedented need.
Desert Locust outbreak could provoke humanitarian crisis
02/02/2021
The Desert Locust outbreak in the Horn of Africa could provoke a humanitarian crisis, warns the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Antimicrobial resistance - the next pandemic?
01/02/2021
All around the world, people, plants and animals are dying from infections that cannot be treated – even with the best medicines available.