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Desert locusts: Are we winning the fight?

Desert locusts: One year on

This time last year, swarms of desert locusts began spreading to countries in the Horn of Africa, devastating crops and people’s livelihoods. FAO's emergency campaign appealed for urgent action to avoid a desert locust plague and a looming humanitarian crisis. One year on, we ask FAO's senior locust forecasting officer Keith Cressman if we're winning the fight.

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FAO 75: Ending hunger – still all to fight for

Ending hunger–still all to for

FAO 75 Anniversary - Episode 3 Progress in fighting hunger has gone into reverse – partly as a result of conflict. Nearly 700 million people do not get enough calories to lead full, productive lives. And more than four times that number cannot afford the cheapest healthy diet. Producer and reporter: Andre Vornic Post-production: Eric Deleu Acknowledgements: Karel Callens, Anna Lartey and Truman F. Peebles (FAO); Lizzie Collingham, historian and writer, Cambridge, UK; Jessica Fanzo, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Jane Howard, World Food Programme (WFP); Andrew Watson, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Read the publication online: www.fao.org/3/cb1182en/online/cb1182en.html

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The post-war era: a world of plenty?

FAO 75 Anniversary - Episode 2

FAO 75 Anniversary - Episode 2: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) sees the light of day in 1945. Its mission is to help bring closer a “world of plenty”. The first couple of decades after World War II coincide with a dramatic expansion in farming and agricultural productivity. But not all of 1945’s recipes pan out.

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Producer and reporter: Andre Vornic Post-production: Eric Deleu Acknowledgements: Karel Callens, Anna Lartey and Truman F. Peebles (FAO); Lizzie Collingham, historian and writer, Cambridge, UK; Jessica Fanzo, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Jane Howard, World Food (...)

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FAO75 Anniversary - Episode 1

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FAO 75 Anniversary - Episode 1

02/12/2020

Antimicrobial resistance - the next pandemic?

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©FAO/ Luis Tato

The increasing failure of antibiotics and other life-saving drugs is a growing global problem.

17/11/2020

COVID-19: Rebuilding for a better world

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©FAO/Giulio Napolitano / FAO.

FAO has launched a COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme to build back better from the pandemic.

29/10/2020

Sudan: Another shock felt amid crises

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©FAO/Montser Elsaddig

Sudan has been hit by devastating floods; the worst seen in decades.

06/10/2020

COVID-19: Building back better with forests

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Credit: FAO/Giulio Napolitano

Why the forestry sector is key for the response to COVID-19.

12/10/2020

The gendered impacts of COVID-19

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©FAO/Virginija Morgan

How the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating gender inequalities, especially for rural women.

15/10/2020