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Planting seeds today, feeding families today and tomorrow
20/08/2026
Emergency agriculture helps displaced families rebuild self-reliance in Tanganyika
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Gaza Strip: Only 3 precent of Gaza’s cropland remains accessible and undamaged, new assessment finds
18/08/2026
Undamaged cropland has declined by 25.5 percent since October 2025
Highlights
Promoting rain harvest technique through FAO Farmer Field School
24/06/2026
With the support of UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, under the Building Local Resilience in Syria (BLRS), FAO has promoted micro rainwater harvesting techniques to farmers to enhance their resilience to water scarcity and climate variability.
SHF and FAO protect livestock families in Northeast Syria rely on for survival
20/08/2026
With support from the Syria Humanitarian Fund (SHF), FAO provided 500 kg of supplementary animal feed to each of 11 072 livestock-keeping households (66 400 people) across Al-Hasakeh, Ar-Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, helping families protect the productive assets they depend on for food security and livelihoods.
In focus
Anticipatory action
FAO is forging a way for a faster, more effective humanitarian system by shifting from disaster response to anticipation.
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KORE - Knowledge and learning in action
Knowledge management is about identifying, co-creating and sharing solutions to help solve challenges, so others can learn from and apply them.
Key publications
Northeastern Nigeria: Belgium’s contribution through the Special Fund for Emergency and Resilience Activities (SFERA)
06/08/2026
Northeastern Nigeria – particularly Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States – continues to face a protracted humanitarian crisis driven by conflict, displacement, economic hardship and climate shocks.
Lebanon: Belgium’s contribution through the Special Fund for Emergency and Resilience Activities (SFERA)
27/07/2026
Through the Special Fund for Emergency and Resilience Activities, the Government of Belgium contributed USD 800 000 to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support conflict-affected farming communities in Lebanon.
Gaza Strip: Time-critical support to farming households to restore local production of nutritious food and enhance food security
30/06/2026
With funding from the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is supporting 280 farming households in the Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis governorates of the Gaza Strip with conditional cash assistance to rehabilitate agricultural land and procure locally available production inputs.