The agreement enables the SNBS to carry out its mandate to collect, manage and report on environmental, food security and market data in the country

Ahead of the global United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 convened in September by United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, the Somali Federal Government in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the European Union (EU), and the French research Centre for Agricultural Development (CIRAD) conducted a stakeholders consultation workshop on the assessment of Food Systems

Les conflits, les phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes, les chocs économiques, les effets de la covid-19 qui s’éternisent et les répercussions de la guerre en Ukraine...

A historic fourth consecutive failed rainy season, skyrocketing prices and an underfunded humanitarian response have resulted in a 160 percent increase in people facing catastrophic levels of food insecurity, starvation and disease in Somalia

La FAO salue la contribution de 12 millions de dollars du Fonds central des Nations Unies pour les interventions d’urgence, mais d’autres apports de fonds sont nécessaires pour éviter une crise alimentaire

La FAO prête assistance à près de 46 000 personnes durant la campagne printanière de semis de pommes de terre

Desert Locust swarms in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - already unprecedented in their size and destructive potential - could swell exponentially and spill over into more countries in East Africa if efforts to deal with the voracious pest are not massively scaled up across the region, FAO warned today.

The United Nations’ (UN) Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has released USD 10 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support a rapid scale-up of control operations aimed at containing the spread of Desert Locust swarms in East Africa.

At the end of 2019, a number of vulnerable households in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region received small ruminants, animal feed and seeds from FAO. Among the beneficiaries of Dori was Ms Haoua Boubacar whose livelihood improved thanks to the support received.

FAO and Belgium support vulnerable populations in recovering their agricultural livelihoods to resume food production while strengthening their resilience

Over 27 million Congolese – one in three people - now critically hungry

In light of recent food security analyses that indicate a growing number of people at risk of food insecurity in northeastern Nigeria, FAO is supporting vulnerable smallholders in the region to produce their own food.

Since 2011, the Syrian conflict has hard hit the families in the country. Family members have been lost, homes and belongings left behind. Food and agriculture practices passed on for generations have been abandoned.

The launch of a training series by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support agricultural entrepreneurship in the Syrian Arab Republic, through its Smallholder Support Programme (SSP), will boost the ability of rural youth and women to develop their businesses, achieve a viable income and improve their livelihoods.

“I am a farmer, and agriculture is my life. One of my biggest challenges was access to water. I grow carrots, potatoes, radish, watercress, onion, parsley, and garden mint.

Farming communities in northeast Syria were hit hard due to cumulative impact of eight years of crisis and changing climate.

Despite control efforts, Desert Locusts are spreading to new areas of Ethiopia in vast numbers.

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today the Desert Locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa threatened to provoke a humanitarian crisis and appealed for urgent funding to tackle the outbreak in order to protect livelihoods and food security.

An estimated 4.1 million people are acutely food insecure in Somalia, according to the latest post-Deyr assessment released by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided 4 500 drought-affected pastoral households in the Somali region of Ethiopia with unconditional cash transfers to meet their immediate needs and invest in productive activities.