This time last year, swarms of desert locusts began spreading to countries in the Horn of Africa, devastating crops and people’s livelihoods. FAO's emergency campaign appealed for urgent action to [...]
Progress in fighting hunger has gone into reverse – partly as a result of conflict. Nearly 700 million people do not get enough calories to lead full, productive lives. And [...]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) sees the light of day in 1945. Its mission is to help bring closer a “world of plenty”. The first [...]
Plant health key to safeguarding food
10/12/2020
10/12/2020
Plants make up 80 percent of the food we eat. Yet, each year we lose up to 40 percent of food crops because of pests and diseases. This leaves millions [...]
The extent of death by hunger and starvation in World War II rivals that of death in combat. By 1945, agriculture has been wrecked; hundreds of millions eke out a [...]
