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05/01/2023

Madagascar has been reeling from a socioeconomic crisis marked by high levels of poverty and food insecurity, with the situation worsening as a result of the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and of the war in Ukraine.

29/12/2022

Rwanda is greatly susceptible to impacts of climate change through its high dependence on rainfed agriculture.

26/04/2019

The Syrian Refugee Resilience Plan (SRRP) is the guiding document for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support the Government of Turkey in addressing the needs of Syrian refugees in Turkey.

23/05/2019

In recent years, the number of people experiencing acute hunger has been persistently high. And 2018 was no exception. Some 113 million people in 53 countries were acutely hungry last year.

07/06/2019

Agriculture is the backbone of the economy in the United Republic of Tanzania. The sector contributes to about 30 percent of the gross domestic product, while supporting about 80 percent of rural livelihoods and producing about 95 percent of the country’s food requirements.

04/11/2019

Avec environ 16 millions d’ha de pâturage, largement sous exploités, presque autant de terres cultivables et un réseau hydrographique dense et présent sur tout le territoire national, la République centrafricaine constitue une zone clé pour la survie du bétail en Afrique centrale.

26/02/2020

The worst desert locust outbreak in decades is underway in the Greater Horn of Africa, where tens of thousands of hectares of cropland and pasture have been damaged in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, with potentially severe consequences for agriculture-based livelihoods in contexts where food security is already fragile.

05/03/2020

Despite its vast natural resources, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is still experiencing the second largest food crisis in the world after Yemen.

18/03/2020

Northeastern Nigeria has faced significant instability for over a decade due to an armed insurgency. More than 1.8 million people remain displaced by the crisis across Adamawa,

16/04/2020

In 2015, the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) collaborated to pilot an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-based methodology for pre- and post-disaster assessment in the Bicol and Davao Regions in order to mainstream innovative ways to enhance Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the agriculture sector.