News
FAO launches a $150 million Emergency and Early Recovery Response Plan for Ukraine to support war-affected rural communities
17/04/2025
From FAO Office in Ukraine
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Highlights
Around the table: Where hunger meets hope and opportunities grow
With the support of FAO and its partners, five distinct livelihoods – wheat farming in Ethiopia, pastoralism in Somalia, poultry keeping in Mozambique, fisheries in South Sudan and sorghum farming in Sudan – help communities rebuild, share and consume the food they produce, gathered around the table.
Boosting emergency food production among vulnerable populations in Burundi
26/03/2025
In Burundi, economic and climate shocks are severely disrupting people’s agricultural activities. The World Bank and FAO are working together to restore means of production and safeguard the livelihoods of 50 000 households affected by food insecurity.
Community Perspectives on Anticipatory Action in the Asia and the Pacific Region
17/03/2025
When disasters strike, communities are often the first to act to protect their families and neighbours. In response to the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters, FAO is working with communities across the Asia-Pacific region to protect livelihoods and strengthen community resilience by implementing anticipatory action measures.
In focus
Cash and voucher assistance
FAO’s cash and voucher programmes provide people with life-saving means to immediately cope with crises, while protecting their livelihoods and strengthening their resilience to future shocks.
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In focus
Climate action
Actions to make agriculture sustainable are among the most effective measures to help nations adapt to and mitigate climate change.
Publications
Myanmar earthquake: Urgent call for assistance
11/04/2025
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on 28 March 2025 caused widespread devastation across key agricultural regions, severely disrupting rural livelihoods and food production systems.
Sweden’s contribution to FAO’s emergencies operations, March 2025
28/03/2025
Sweden has reinforced its commitment to global food security with a total contribution of SEK 73 million (USD 7.23 million) to FAO’s emergencies operations in 2025.
FAO in the 2025 humanitarian appeals
04/12/2024
In 2024, escalating violence drove extreme hunger crises from Gaza and the Sudan to Haiti. The number of people facing, or projected to face, catastrophic hunger conditions more than doubled, rising from 705 000 in 2023 to 1.9 million people by mid-2024 across five countries/territories.