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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. 

Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 194 member states, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone can play a part in ending hunger. 

In Africa, our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With 47 sub-Saharan African countries, the Regional Office for Africa believes that everyone can play a part in ending hunger. 

To meet the demands posed by major global trends in agricultural development and challenges faced by member nations, FAO has identified key priorities on which it is best placed to intervene.  Africa has three Regional Initiatives based on an in-depth cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary review of regional issues and trends as well as alignment with regional commitments. These are:

  1. Working with African Union commitments to ending hunger by 2025
  2. Pursuing inclusive agricultural transformation agenda to reduce poverty; and
  3. Enhancing resilience of livelihoods and production systems
  • On the margins of ARFSD7, FAO is part of a side event: Conflict-Climate Change-COVID-19 nexus: A food systems perspective jointly organized by the AU, UNECA, FAO, IFAD, UNICEF and WFP. The event will take place on 1 March 2021 from 12:00- 13:30 P.M.

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Photo Gallery

Photo gallery - Local perspectives on peace

Photo gallery - Conservation in Agriculture 

Photo gallery - Drought Response 

FAO Mediabase 

 

Publications

The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World SOFI 2020

Peace and food security - Investing in resilience to sustain rural livelihoods amid conflict 

2019 Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition

Conflict, migration and food security

A Regional Outlook on Gender and Agrifood Systems. Africa

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation into the Watershed Management Approach in Eastern Africa

Interim guidance note: Mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and nutrition of schoolchildren

FAO publications catalogue 2020 

 

Links to websites and pages

http://www.fao.org/home/en/  

http://www.fao.org/africa/en/ 

https://www.fsnau.org/node/1857  

http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/en/info/info/index.html 

Climate 

COVID 19 

Conflicts 

Twitter 

Youtube 

Linkedlin 

Flickr 

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Policy briefs

Good practice/project factsheet 

Keeping food and agricultural systems alive 

COVID-19 crisis and support for agrifood: Public sector responses through the financial sector 

Responding to COVID-19 food disruptions in Africa 

Food system policy priorities and programmatic actions for healthy diets in the context of COVID-19 

Impact of COVID-19 on agriculture, food systems and rural livelihoods in Eastern Africa 

Africa’s youth in agrifood systems: Innovation in the context of COVID-19 

FAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme 

Keeping food and agricultural systems alive 

 

News

KORE news story 

Somalia: Urgent scaling up of emergency response needed, as 2.65 million people are projected to be in acute hunger 

FAO pledges to scale up direct use of digital financial transfers 

East Africa's locust "air force" could be grounded, as another wave of the scourge takes flight 

FAO Director-General calls for urgent scale-up of Africa’s Great Green Wall 

Responding to food insecurity in Mozambique 

Overcoming COVID-19 challenges to collaborate better than ever before 

Hand-in-Hand Initiative creates a new business model for partners to work together to end poverty and hunger 

 

Global Climate Fund approves $160 million to support FAO-led projects

2020: A year of compounding crises