Highlights

Crop Prospects and Food Situation
17/09/2020
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly through the loss of income and jobs related to containment measures, have severely aggravated global food security conditions...

COVID-19 impacts driving up acute hunger in countries already in food crisis
17/09/2020
Pandemic aggravates pre-existing drivers of hunger - FAO and partners call for urgent and decisive action.

FAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme
02/09/2020
The world’s food systems are under threat. FAO is calling on partners to join together to prevent a global food emergency.

Call for interest on designation as FAO Reference Centre for Zoonotic Coronaviruses
26/08/2020
Deadline 15 October 2020

What COVID-19 movement restrictions mean for nomadic pastoralists in the Sahel
20/07/2020
Better land governance could be a solution to challenges pastoralists face

FAO launches the new COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme outlining seven key priority areas
14/07/2020
The UN Agency also calls for joint coordinated global response to support food and agriculture

Launch of FAO's COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme
14/07/2020
Tune in to an online global dialogue "Joint action on COVID-19" on Tuesday, 14 July 2020, 9:30 – 12:00 (CEST)

Rethinking our relationship with water and the use we make of it
07/07/2020
Integrated agriculture water management in times of COVID-19