FAO emergencies and resilience

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Food security and child nutrition crises persist in Gaza despite fragile gains due to increased humanitarian assistance and commercial traffic
23/07/2026

New analysis released today shows improvements in food security and child nutrition across the Gaza Strip. However, the United Nations cautioned that...

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West Bank: Ministry of Agriculture, FAO and Pandemic Fund partner to carry out emergency vaccination campaign against foot-and-mouth disease in livestock
23/07/2026

Cairo/Jerusalem – The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has acquired nearly 50 000 FMD SAT 1 vaccine doses as part of a campaign against foot-and-mouth...

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24/06/2026

With the support of UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, under the Building Local Resilience in Syria (BLRS), FAO has promoted micro rainwater harvesting techniques to farmers to enhance their resilience to water scarcity and climate variability.

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Anticipatory action

FAO is forging a way for a faster, more effective humanitarian system by shifting from disaster response to anticipation.

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KORE - Knowledge and learning in action

Knowledge management is about identifying, co-creating and sharing solutions to help solve challenges, so others can learn from and apply them. 

Key publications
18/06/2026

Developing strong El Niño conditions are set to intensify droughts and floods across Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean, putting millions of food‑insecure people at risk through 2027.

17/06/2026

In the current edition of a regular joint bi-yearly report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to worsen across 13 countries and territories identified as hotspots between June and November 2026, prompting an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in these identified hunger hotspots.

12/06/2026

This brochure presents 14 good practices for emergency preparedness, response and resilience in projects implemented across the Near East and North Africa region supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), where climate change, conflict, water scarcity...