"FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION - FAO"

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is working with partners to protect crops and livelihoods in East Africa, amid the region’s biggest locust outbreak in decades.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Maximo Torero Cullen, Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and, Arif Husain, Chief Economist, World Food Programme (WFP), hold a virtual press conference on the Secretary-General’s policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on food security and nutrition.

Addressing the annual ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS), humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said the response to the COVID-19 pandemic “must be proportionate to the scale of the problem we face,” and may require approximately 90 billion US dollars. UNIFEED

Following the launch of the UN Secretary-General’s policy brief on the impact of the pandemic on food security and nutrition, experts from the FAO and the WFP briefed journalists in New York on the state of food security in the world. UNIFEED

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The political and security gains made by Somalia over recent years could be at risk of reversal if swift action is not taken by the international community to help local authorities avert a major humanitarian crisis due to the combined effect of devastating floods, desert locusts and the widespread impact of COVID-19. UNSOM

Keith Cressman, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Senior Locust Forecasting Officer, holds a virtual press conference on the FAO Desert Locust Appeal amid new threat to Southwest Asia and Africa’s Sahel region.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.