Restoring land and livelihoods with beekeeping in Tanzania
18/05/2023
In northern Tanzania, recurring drought in recent years caused by climate change has put pressure on communities who make their livelihoods by keeping cattle. A group of Maasai women have turned to producing honey from beehives in the forest to generate additional income.
Fall Armyworm in Malawi
02/12/2022
Farmers have since learned to use botanical insecticides to manage fall armyworm, an invasive pest of maize in the country, with the support of the FAO Global Action on Fall Armyworm control.
Tracking progress on food and agriculture related SDG indicators 2022
19/09/2022
While the world was already off track from meeting the SDGs even prior to 2020, the past few years have seen a series of cascading crises that have halted or even reversed progress across several Sustainable Development Goals.
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism and Belgium - Partnering for development
27/06/2022
Over the years, FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) and Belgium have achieved ground-breaking results improving the lives and livelihoods of rural communities in over 70 countries across the world.
FAO Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism: Achieving gender-parity in decision making
27/05/2022
Climate change is severely affecting food security, ecosystems and livelihoods. But did you know that climate change is also worsening inequalities? Women and youth, Indigenous Peoples and other vulnerable groups are disproportionally affected by climate change.
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism: Fighting against Fall Armyworm
15/04/2022
Since its arrival in West Africa in 2016, Fall Armyworm (FAW) has spread across Africa, the Near East and Asia, reaching as far as Australia. In Kenya, Josephine Owese cultivates maize in order to feed families and livestock. In 2017, FAW attacked her crops.
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism: Fighting against Fall Armyworm
15/04/2022
A silent and fast spreading threat is endangering the food security of nearly 600 million people, especially the most vulnerable. It can ravage over 80 different types of crops. The prey of choice? MAIZE. Unless we act fast, it could devour 80 million tonnes per year.
Recognizing FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) Resource Partners
31/03/2022
12 years ago, FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) was born. Since then, the FMM has increased its impact times 5, improving the lives and livelihoods of people in over 70 countries.
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) welcomes Australia as Resource Partner
09/03/2022
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) welcomes a new Resource Partner, Australia. Australia contributed around USD 1 million to FAO’s FMM to help finance life-saving programmes and essential development initiatives around the world.
Dimitra Clubs and Farmer Field Schools face off against COVID-19
09/03/2022
Under the banner of FAO’s component IV of the Global Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19, “Ensuring food supply chain actors are not at risk of virus transmission”, the project developed a range of products including a series of documentaries and animated films to facilitate documentation and dissemination of emerging COVID-19 sensitization responses in 11 focus countries.