"FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION - FAO"

Secretary-General António Guterres spent Sunday in the island of Santo Antão, where, after five years of intense drought, a group of projects supported by the United Nations hopes to transform the agricultural sector of these Atlantic islands. UNIFEED

United Nations agencies are calling for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable children in the 15 countries hardest hit by an unprecedented food and nutrition crisis. WHO

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Briefing journalists today in New York, a UN Spokesperson said that according to Food and Agriculture Organization, “the index of world food prices dipped for the ninth consecutive month in December of last year, declining by 1.9 percent from the previous month.” UNIFEED

Daily Press Briefing by the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General.

After a historic drought triggered by five consecutive poor rainy seasons, skyrocketing food prices and an intensifying conflict, Somalia has been lingering on the brink of famine. UNTV CH

End-of-year press briefing by Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

To help vulnerable farmers get through the worst drought in forty years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has so far supported more than 138 300 households (comprising 691 500 people) in just the Somali region of Ethiopia with life-sustaining supplies and by the end of 2022 will have assisted a total of 1.5 million households in need (7.5 million people) across the entire country. FAO

The measure of changes in world food commodity prices remained largely steady in November, with declining international prices of cereals, meat and dairy products offsetting increasing quotations for vegetable oils and sugar, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday. UNIFEED

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) distributed over 30 000 grain sleeves to support Ukrainian farmers with temporary storage solutions. FAO