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Grain storage solutions help Ukrainian farmers save and sell their produce

Grain storage solutions help Ukrainian farmers

FAO, together with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, distributed over 30 000 grain sleeves to support more than 1 500 Ukrainian farmers with temporary storage solutions. Each sleeve can hold around 200 tonnes of grain for up to nine months. This assistance will ensure grain is properly stored and farmers are able to continue their production.

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FAO's response to global food security risks due to war in Ukraine

FAO's response to global food security

In a world with 166 more million people chronically undernourished and 3 billion people with no access to healthy diets, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine “is affecting the whole world’s food security” explains FAO Chief Economist, Maximo Torero. The agricultural production and food supply chains were disrupted as many countries, including those in North Africa and South Asia, are dependent on export of cereals and fertilizers from Ukraine and the Russia Federation, says Torero. Watch the video to see FAO's response to global food security risks due to the war in Ukraine.

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Sanja Mikić - Food Hero

Sanja Mikić is a researcher at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Serbia. She leads the FAO International Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund project in the country and she is responsible for collecting and researching local varieties of grain and cereals found in farmers’ fields, and national and international gene banks. Vulnerable farmers use these seeds and knowledge to diversify their production and food consumption and increase resilience to climate change.

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Colombia’s sea women

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FAO/Heysel Calderón

Colombia’s sea women net a better deal

08/03/2023

A new generation of Syrian entrepreneurs

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@ FAO/Mokthar Al Samman

A new generation of Syrian agricultural entrepreneurs

17/02/2023

Feeding and regreening: Dakar's micro-gardens

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©FAO/Yacine Cisse

Feeding and regreening: The micro-gardens of Dakar

15/09/2022

The coffee industry

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©FAO/Santiago Billy

Have you ever wondered where your coffee beans come from?

10/05/2022

Venezuela's forest guardians leading the way

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Venezuela’s Karina indigenous people are working hard to protect the vast Imataca Forest Reserve for future generations.

07/01/2022

Thinking local turns global

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©Federica Bolla

In the 1980s, a group of likeminded people started a local initiative that quickly became a global movement.

22/12/2021