Colombia hosts the highest number of migrants from Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) in the region, with nearly 1.8 million people.

A new generation of desert locust swarms is threatening agricultural and pastoral livelihoods and the food security of millions of people in the Horn of Africa and Yemen despite intense efforts to control the pest throughout 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said today.

“My life depends on farming. My resource is farming, and my family sustains itself with what we farm,” says Ali Mahamud Rubaax, a farmer based in Dharkeynley village, Beletweyne district, central Somalia. 

Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have been facing a serious outbreak of the African migratory locust (AML) (Locusta migratoria migratorioides) since May 2020

Director-General calls for better information sharing and technology use

Positive rabies samples validated by the World Organisation for Animal Health reference centre for rabies at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES).

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease Control (ECTAD), in collaboration with the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), conducted the first phase of the In-Service Applied Veterinary Epidemiology Training (ISAVET). 

Over half a million people require assistance in the north of the country

In September 2020, FAO launched a radio training initiative airing various episodes across eight Somali radio stations.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Myanmar’s Department of Agriculture (DoA) recently conducted a series of training sessions to support the capacity development of farmers and technical experts.

During the second half of 2020, a moderate to strong La Niña phenomenon was registered that is causing extreme weather conditions in various parts of the world. 

Funding shortfalls threaten continued operations

Child and maternal diets particularly vulnerable

FAO launches project to enhance food security by increasing job opportunities in the fisheries and livestock sectors

Funding to provide time-critical agricultural support to 8 000 food insecure smallholder families

Joint Communique' on the critical desert locust situation and emergency response in Somalia 

Funds will contribute to building resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and Yemen

The crisis in Syria forced many rural women to become the only breadwinners for their families, which was a new experience for many of them.

Women increase their income and improve their family’s food security and nutrition through kitchen gardening thanks to the support provided by FAO in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan

Les conflits armés, l’insécurité généralisée et les catastrophes naturelles récurrentes associés aux effets de la maladie à coronavirus 2019 (covid-19), font de la République démocratique du Congo la pire crise alimentaire au monde.