"FARMERS"

A large-scale locusts outbreak across eight provinces in North and Northeast Afghanistan poses enormous threat to the country’s food security, warns the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is providing high-quality seeds to smallholder farmers and agricultural assistance for rural communities in front-line regions of Ukraine to ensure they will not miss the spring planting season. FAO

The UN top official for Africa warned the Security Council that the security situation in the Sahel has remained “very worrying”, with “non-state armed groups continue to carry out large-scale attacks against civilian and military targets, and to engage in confrontations over access to resources, territorial control, and influence.” UNIFEED

In northern Tanzania, recurring drought in recent years has put pressure on communities who make their livelihoods by keeping cattle. A group of Maasai women have turned to producing honey from beehives in the forest to generate additional income. FAO

The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and with people in seven countries on the brink of starvation and death, says the latest report on acute hunger released Wednesday. FAO 

The COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and conflicts have created significant food security challenges worldwide in the past years. Currently, millions of people around the world need urgent support in over 45 countries. But just providing food aid isn't enough to tackle the growing hunger crisis, explained Rein Paulsen, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) chief of Emergencies. FAO

A dire lack of humanitarian funding has left hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people in Chad facing hunger in the coming months, UN agencies said on Friday. UNTV CH

At a youth-focused event that marked the International Mine Awareness Day in South Sudan’s capital Juba, Jurkuch Barach Jurkuch, Chairperson of South Sudan’s National Mine Action Authority (NMAA) expressed his regrets about the use of landmines in the country during decades of conflict. UNMISS

Briefing reporters today on Haiti’s current food security crisis, World Food Programme's Country Director, Jean-Martin Bauer, wondered “how bad things need to get in order for actions to happen?” UNIFEED

In the wake of the devastating earthquakes that hit Türkiye on 6 February 2023, farmers and rural communities in the country urgently need assistance: labor losses and fertilizer shortages have halted agricultural and livestock activities, posing a significant threat to the upcoming summer harvest. FAO