FAO emergencies and resilience

Publications
12/2025

Afghanistan has ranked among the world’s most food-insecure countries for decades. Conflict, climate shocks and chronic underinvestment have left millions trapped in hunger, with rural livelihoods unable to withstand repeated crises.

12/2025

Acute food insecurity has nearly tripled since 2016, while humanitarian funding is falling back to 2016 levels. Rising needs cannot be met by doing less of the same.

12/2025

Strengthening mechanisms in animal health for a resilient Association of Southeast Asian Nations (SMART ASEAN).

12/2025

Chad is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that affects more than one‑third of its population, despite substantial and rapidly increasing investments in humanitarian interventions.

12/2025

After 14 years of conflict and recurrent climate shocks, the agriculture sector has been among the hardest hit in the Syrian Arab Republic, with severe damage to productive assets and widespread disruption to food production.

12/2025

Through its Emergency and Early Recovery Response Plan for 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) requires a total of USD 150 million to assist 550 000 people in rural areas, including small-scale farmers, by providing agricultural production inputs to ensure they can rely on their own food production.

11/2025

Over the past decade, Northwest Nigeria has faced persistent conflict, insecurity and violence.

11/2025

Mali is facing a complex and protracted humanitarian crisis driven by armed conflict, insecurity, and the impacts of climate shocks.

11/2025

This document provides an overview of the humanitarian situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as the ongoing response of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as of 4 November 2025.

11/2025

This biennial flagship report provides comprehensive evidence on the escalating impact of disasters on global agricultural systems, revealing losses of USD 3.26 trillion over the period 1991–2023.

11/2025

This document summarizes the findings of the flagship report 'The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2025'.

11/2025

This emergency agriculture support brief presents the results of the tenth round of Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring), conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in June and July 2025.

11/2025

The Government of Germany, through the Special Fund for Emergency and Resilience Activities, contributed USD 428 590 to strengthen preparedness and mitigate the impacts of flooding and typhoons on 6 016 vulnerable fishing households (30 080 people) and fisherfolk associations in Catanduanes, Isabela and Surigao del Norte provinces of the Philippines.

11/2025

The Government of Canada contributed USD 19 883 284 to improve the livelihoods and food security of 22 000 farming and herding households (103 400 people) and increase the competitiveness of cooperatives through a decade-long project the West Bank.

11/2025

This emergency agriculture support brief presents the results of the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth rounds of Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring), conducted in Yemen in March and June 2025.

11/2025

The Government of the Kingdom of Denmark contributed USD 2 272 029 to the FAO project, "Scaling up FAO’s recovery response in drought-affected regions of Galmudug and Puntland", which was implemented from 1 January 2024 to 31 July 2025.

11/2025

The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany contributed USD 800 000 to the FAO project, "Anticipating the impacts of La Niña-induced floods to protect smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in Mozambique", which was implemented from 24 August 2024 to 31 May 2025.

11/2025

In 2024, acute hunger affected over 295 million people globally, continuing a six-year upward trend driven by conflict, climate extremes and economic instability.

10/2025

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing a prolonged and multidimensional food crisis, driven by a combination of armed conflict, displacement, repeated climate shocks, and structural weaknesses, directly threatening the food security, nutrition, and livelihoods of millions of Congolese people, especially in fragile rural areas.

10/2025

Conflict, economic decline and climatic shocks continue to erode the resilience of rural communities in Yemen.