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In Focus: FAO response to global food security challenges

Gaza: FAO contributes to fighting malnutrition and starvation
05/04/2024
From FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa
Projected famine in Gaza: FAO urges immediate access to deliver urgent and critical assistance at scale
18/03/2024
New data reveals that half of the population or about 1.1 million people are experiencing catastrophic food insecurity
Statement by QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
11/03/2024
FOOD FOR GAZA - A Round Table for the Response to the Humanitarian Crisis in the Middle East focused on Food Security
Rise in hunger levels in NENA region of great concern
04/03/2024
Director-General addresses 37th session of FAO Regional Ministerial Conference for the Near East and North Africa
Gaza: In a briefing to the UN Security Council, FAO calls for immediate actions to eliminate the risk of famine
28/02/2024
Deputy Director-General Maurizio Martina points out the catastrophic damage induced by the conflict across the entire food supply chain
Statement by the Director-General on the food security situation in Gaza
24/02/2024
''I join the Secretary-General and my colleagues in the IASC in calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire''
Gaza: Every day, more and more people are on the brink of famine-like conditions
12/02/2024
Interview with FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol on Gaza and other global emergencies including Ukraine and Sudan
FAO expresses deep alarm over acute hunger in the Gaza Strip
21/12/2023
UN agency issues call for urgent action in wake of Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report
Interruption of the Black Sea Grain Initiative
01/08/2023
FAO Brief examines the potential implications on global food markets and food security
Ukraine: FAO and WFP join forces to clear agricultural land from remnants of the war and help farmers resume production
22/06/2023
The programme aims to prevent Ukraine from requiring food assistance in the long term
Sudan: acute food insecurity sparked by the ongoing crisis is set to escalate in coming months
19/06/2023
FAO urgently requires $95.4 million to scale up response to save lives, enable access to food and protect vital livelihoods
Conflict Drives Acute Hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo - UN agencies warn
29/05/2023
From the FAO Regional Office for Africa
Haiti: Nearly half of the population is facing acute hunger
29/05/2023
From the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Increasing risk of hunger set to spread in hotspot areas as the Sudan crisis spills over into subregion and el Niño looms - warns new UN report
29/05/2023
Burkina Faso, Haiti, Mali and the Sudan have been elevated to the highest alert level to join Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen
Türkiye and Syria earthquake
26/04/2023
Preliminary analysis on the exposed agricultural area
Initial assessments on the impact of the earthquakes in Türkiye indicate severe damage to agriculture and rural infrastructure in affected areas.
Türkiye earthquakes: initial assessment indicates losses of more than 20 percent in food production
31/03/2023
FAO renews its funding appeal to scale efforts to help affected rural communities sustain and recover basic food production
Eastern Africa drought: FAO welcomes a €25 million contribution from Germany to improve access to food and boost rural livelihoods in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and the Sudan
22/03/2023
Funds aim to provide time-critical emergency aid and livelihood support to build back self-reliance and protect the most vulnerable against shocks
Women and children stand outside their makeshift shelters within Raama Cadeey Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Baidoa, Somalia.
Somalia: lives and livelihoods of millions still at risk, FAO calls for an urgent scale-up in emergency humanitarian aid alongside resilience
06/03/2023
Strategic investments are needed to sustainably improve food and water security for millions of Somalis
FAO outlines three pillars of action for initiatives in Ukraine in 2023
22/01/2023
Chief Economist Máximo Torero Cullen briefs Ministers at G-7 meeting in Berlin
Field visit to one of the affected households in Sumska oblast, Ukraine. September, 2022.
Ukraine: New UN survey shows rural households are increasingly affected by the war
14/12/2022

Nationwide assessment reveals that more than one in four respondents reported having reduced or ceased agricultural production