“My life is so different now,” says 23-year-old Scofia Sadik Mandera, with a big smile on her face.

The Kanyi (a local name for a Sahel breed of goat), has long been the preferred breed among women herders of the Lake Chad Basin. However, due to a nine-year long insurgency, goat ownership in northeastern Nigeria has declined significantly.

New skills, new hope: How a FAO Farmer Field School in Torit, South Sudan became a turning point for an elderly widow.

Displaced shouldn’t mean dismissed. In Iraq, FAO’s cash-based programmes support vulnerable men, women and families affected by conflict.

Thanks to a grant from the Swedish government, an ingenious FAO project, done in conjunction with Guatemala’s agriculture ministry, changed everything.