Vulnerable farming families in post-conflict areas in Iraq's Ninewa plains, west of Mosul, will be...
FAO Food Price Index hits lowest level in almost six years
06 August 2015
06 August 2015
Slide in prices for dairy products and vegetable oils drives Index to its lowest value since September 2009
In 2015, FAO seeks USD 759 million to assist over 30 million crisis-affected people in 35 countries.
15 countries out of 19 achieved MDG hunger target but protracted crises elsewhere push malnutrition rates up.
Most countries in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) achieved their international pledge to reduce the share of their population suffering from hunger, but conflicts and protracted crises in Iraq, Sudan, Syria and...
International pledging conference aims to raise billions for Syria and neighbouring host countries.
Rome – Some $121 million are urgently needed to prevent further deterioration of the food security situation and the collapse of regional food chains amidst the ongoing crisis in Syria, which has severely disrupted agricultural production and trade...
FAO works to increase food security in Iraq
09 March 2015
09 March 2015
FAO has taken immediate action to rehabilitate the seed industry in Iraq after the war in 2003. Working with the Iraqi Government, our focus was to help rehabilitate damaged infrastructure, provide internal and external training programmes for people in key seed industry disciplines and to review the Iraqi national seed...
