FAO supports land rehabilitation in Angola’s indigenous and pastoral communities
FAO provides disaster risk reduction and management training to Laotian farmers
FAO enables market access to agricultural inputs for smallholder farmers in Mozambique
FAO helps Lesotho develop a comprehensive land cover database
Income-generating livestock distribution helps conflict-affected families recover after devastating floods
FAO supports sustainable agricultural growth in Burundi through farmer field schools
FAO introduces sustainable employment opportunities to assist poor rural households
FAO’s aquaculture project helps improve household nutrition & food security in Northeastern Haiti
FAO destocking activities increase financial stability and livelihoods of herder communities
FAO helps fight desert locust outbreaks by providing real-time detection tools
Eradicated the deadly livestock viral disease, rinderpest
Created international standards, Codex Alimentarius, to ensure safe, good food for everyone
Eliminated human ‘river blindness’ in 11 West African countries
Maintains the world’s largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food and agriculture
Created and led adoption of the first ever binding international accord to combat illegal fishing, the Port State Measures Agreement
Produced globally-agreed upon guidelines on tenure rights to ensure equitable access to land, fisheries and forests
Helped halve the number of hungry in Latin America and the Caribbean
Promoted the Right to Food as a human right guaranteed in constitutions and frameworks of over 30 countries.
