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[Drought Threatens Agriculture and Deepens Food Crisis in Yemen
04 Jul 2025 11:46 GMT
… is facing an escalating food crisis as prolonged drought conditions …
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the dry season in … international support, Yemen’s food crisis will continue to spiral. … act now to prevent famine and build long- …
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Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa
03 Jul 2025 18:54 GMT
Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa after following ideal breeding conditions in late 2024 and early 2025, raising fears of major locust infestations moving south into the Sahel later this year.
The Commission for Controlling …
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QU Dongyu closes 44th FAO Conference urging ingenuity, solidarity and collective will
04 Jul 2025 18:29 GMT
… Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, … Chairperson of the Council, FAO’s other key governance … will remember the 44th FAO Ministerial Conference by your … for Shock-Driven Food Crisis Facility, among other subjects …
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FAO Launches US$100 Million Fund to Anticipate Food Crises
02 Jul 2025 14:20 GMT
The Food and Agriculture Organization unveiled its Financing for Shock-Driven Food Crisis (FSFC) Facility on … intervention.
Launched during the 44th FAO Ministerial Conference, the mechanism … data-driven early action.
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu emphasized …
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Sudan’s farmers watch livelihoods wither as war cuts power, water
04 Jul 2025 12:05 GMT
… devastating 1985 drought and famine when war flared … to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Now in its third … acute food insecurity, with famine already taking hold in … cycle. In April, the Food and Agriculture Organization warned that “below-average …
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Crops wither in war-torn Sudan as power cuts cripple irrigation
04 Jul 2025 09:31 GMT
… deepening the country's food crisis.
"I' … devastating 1985 drought and famine when war erupted again … the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Now in its third year … acute food insecurity, with famine already taking hold in …
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Trump’s cuts leave a million facing starvation in Nigeria – as food aid runs out
04 Jul 2025 14:08 GMT
… Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) warned that 30.6m … the country were now facing food crisis or acute food insecurity, … centre Lagos, Nigeria’s food crisis is centred on the country … telling The Independent that the human rights agency UNHCR has been …
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'As civilians languish in misery, political elites grow fat with impunity': Pope slams use of hunger as weapon of war
02 Jul 2025 19:55 GMT
… people to the brink of famine.
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More than … people to the brink of famine.
In a statement on … Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a joint statement … themselves.
The risk of famine has extended close to the …
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Keeping a modern and resilient agriculture at the heart of Masaganang Bagong Pilipinas Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. and Lionel Dabbadie
02 Jul 2025 19:11 GMT
… Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was founded to ensure that famine … and emerging challenges. Together, FAO and the DA have … producers. In parallel, FAO is shifting from direct … is why DA and FAO are embedding disaster risk …
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After years of war, a deadly landmine crisis plagues Syria
02 Jul 2025 16:33 GMT
… to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
Another 10,400 have … bodies - such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN-Habitat - … recovery in Syria.
The FAO has also highlighted the … people,” said Toni Ettel, FAO Acting Representative in Syria, in …