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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetHigh-profileSyrian Arab Republic: Drought and widespread crop failure – Urgent call for assistance 2025
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No results found.The impacts of the 2024/25 drought in the Syrian Arab Republic are pushing rural communities to the brink, compounding one of the world’s largest food security crises. With rainfall 54 percent below average and widespread crop failure, farming households are unable to cultivate their lands, pastoral systems are collapsing and livestock-keeping households are rapidly depleting their coping mechanisms. In response, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) seeks USD 66.61 million to support 123 400 households (617 000 people) with time-critical agricultural assistance to safeguard livelihoods, restore food production and enhance resilience to future shocks. This document outlines the impact of the crisis on agricultural livelihoods and food security as well as FAO's planned response and funding requirements. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEmergency responseAfghanistan: Worsening drought – Urgent call for assistance 2025
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No results found.The impacts of the 2025 drought in Afghanistan are threatening the survival of rural households across half the country, compounding one of the world’s largest food crises. With widespread rainfed crop failure, severe pasture loss and alarming groundwater depletion, farming and pastoralist communities are rapidly losing their ability to cope. In response, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) seeks USD 34.5 million to support 1.04 million people with time-critical agricultural assistance to protect livestock, restore food production and sustain livelihoods. This document outlines the impact of the crisis on agricultural and pastoral systems, FAO’s planned response and urgent funding needs. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookEvaluating the impacts of cash and complementary agricultural support interventions in fragile settings
The case of Somalia
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No results found.This study examines the FAO cash plus agriculture program in Somalia. This multi-faceted intervention provides agricultural inputs, training and cash transfers to vulnerable agro-pastoralist households living in districts and villages that experienced severe weather shocks. We exploit variations in the implementation of this program to assess the effect of receiving inputs only and inputs plus cash on a range of protective and productive outcomes. Specifically, we make use of household survey data collected in 2019 and apply a quasi-experimental Inverse Probability Weighted Regression Analysis (IPWRA) matching approach to estimate the impact of the two different interventions on food security, assets, adoption of inputs and adoption of agricultural practices. We find positive and significant impacts on a number of productive outcomes and some difference between the two treatments: while inputs seem to increase asset wealth, cash plus reduces food insecurity and higher levels of income diversification, suggesting that the cash component facilitates investments in livelihoods diversification. Moreover, we find evidence of heterogeneous impacts under conditions of weather shocks, and between socio-economic segments of the population.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetHigh-profileSWM Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme - Executive Summary: Progress and impact 2018–2024 2025
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This document serves as the SWM Programme phase I implementation report. The SWM Programme has sought to balance and strengthen wildlife conservation with the well-being of rural communities through an approach emphasizing the rights of local communities. This summary highlights the programme’s progress from 2018 to 2024. -
BookletHigh-profileFAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 2022The FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 was endorsed by FAO Council in June 2022. This new strategy replaces the previous strategy from 2017 to better FAO's climate action with the Strategic Framework 2022-2031, and other FAO strategies that have been developed since then. The Strategy was elaborated following an inclusive process of consultation with FAO Members, FAO staff from headquarters and decentralized offices, as well as external partners. It articulates FAO's vision for agrifood systems by 2050, around three main pillars of action: at global and regional level, at country level, and at local level. The Strategy also encourages key guiding principles for action, such as science and innovation, inclusiveness, partnerships, and access to finance.
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BookletCorporate general interestEmissions due to agriculture
Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
2021Also available in:
No results found.The FAOSTAT emissions database is composed of several data domains covering the categories of the IPCC Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector of the national GHG inventory. Energy use in agriculture is additionally included as relevant to emissions from agriculture as an economic production sector under the ISIC A statistical classification, though recognizing that, in terms of IPCC, they are instead part of the Energy sector of the national GHG inventory. FAO emissions estimates are available over the period 1961–2018 for agriculture production processes from crop and livestock activities. Land use emissions and removals are generally available only for the period 1990–2019. This analytical brief focuses on overall trends over the period 2000–2018.