Showing posts with label FAO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FAO. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Number of people facing acute food insecurity rises by 65 mln in 2022 — FAO

Number of people facing acute food insecurity rises by 65 mln in 2022 — FAO

Around 258 million people in 58 countries and territories faced acute food insecurity at crisis or worse levels in 2022, up from 193 million people in 53 countries and territories in 2021. This is stated in a report the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published on Wednesday.

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Water scarcity threatens food security in Middle East, says UN official

Water scarcity threatens food security in Middle East

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has voiced concern over the worsening water scarcity crisis in the Middle East in particular, which it said will threaten food security in the region.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

20 Million Risk Starvation As Horn Of Africa Drought Worsens: UN - UrduPoint

20 Million Risk Starvation As Horn Of Africa Drought Worsens

Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned Tuesday.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Monday, May 1, 2017

FAO, WFP warn against ignoring famine alarm in Yemen, Africa

FAO, WFP warn against ignoring famine alarm in Yemen, Africa
The leaders of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) called on the international community to urgently step up action to prevent further hunger deaths in four countries stalked by famine: north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

Monday, December 7, 2015

Desperate farm families in eastern Ukraine forced into ‘difficult choices’ to survive – (UN agency)

UN, 7 December 2015 – The absence of financial, physical, social and human resources has left some 700,000 farm households extremely vulnerable in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, the results of a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) household survey revealed today, and also warned of food insecurity among those families due to “skyrocketing” commodity prices.

Friday, June 5, 2015

Senior UN official calls for global movement to end hunger once and for all

UN, 4 June 2015 – The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called for a global movement to eradicate hunger as countries look ahead to the new set of development goals that will be adopted in September.