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    The quarterly Food Security Bulletin for East Africa will provide a synthesis of key food security and climate indicators for the sub-region. Contents of the bulletin include a climate update and outlook, livestock and crop production overview, market trends as well as nutrition indicators in the sub-region.
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    The quarterly Food Security Bulletin for East Africa will provide a synthesis of key food security and climate indicators for the sub-region. Contents of the bulletin include a climate update and outlook, livestock and crop production overview, market trends as well as nutrition indicators in the sub-region.
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    FAO Regional Office for Africa Newsletter, July - December 2017
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    This newsletter is a good platform resource for knowledge and information sharing, and provides readers with some factual human interest stories related to FAO's work in the regional, subregional and country level. This latest edition of FAO Regional Office for Africa Newsletter which covers the period of July-December 2017 encapsulates some key stories related to FAO-sponsored programmes in the region. The edition also presents to readers the message of the Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa on the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition Report, SOFI 2017, the key messages of the report, and some human interest stories from The Gambia, Fall Armyworm, Africa's Great Green Wall Initiative, FAO's reponse to food insecurity in the Eastern Africa Region, FAO's insight of Food Security and Blue Economy and some key success stories in the region.

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    2020
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    Global climate studies show that not only temperatures are increasing and precipitation levels are becoming more varied, all projections indicate these trends will continue. It is therefore imperative that we understand changes in climate over agricultural areas and their impacts on agriculture production and food security. This study presents new analysis on the impact of changing climate on agriculture and food security, by examining the evidence on recent climate variability and extremes over agricultural areas and the impact of these on agriculture and food security. It shows that more countries are exposed to increasing climate variability and extremes and the frequency (the number of years exposed in a five-year period) and intensity (the number of types of climate extremes in a five-year period) of exposure over agricultural areas have increased. The findings of this study are compelling and bring urgency to the fact that climate variability and extremes are proliferating and intensifying and are contributing to a rise in global hunger. The world’s 2.5 billion small-scale farmers, herders, fishers, and forest-dependent people, who derive their food and income from renewable natural resources, are most at risk and affected. Actions to strengthen the resilience of livelihoods and food systems to climate variability and extremes urgently need to be scaled up and accelerated.
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    Rural youth employment and agri-food systems in Kenya
    A rapid context analysis
    2019
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    This context analysis provides an overview of Kenya, describing youth employment challenges, policies and programmes in place as well as FAO’s priorities on decent rural youth employment. Finally, it also analyses the country’s migration trends and dynamics. Almost 88 percent of the world’s 1.2 billion youth live in developing countries. Globally, young people account for approximately 24 percent of the working poor. Although the world’s youth population is expected to grow, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for young women and men remain limited – particularly for those living in economically stagnant rural areas of developing countries. Hence, creating more productive and beneficial jobs for the rural youth is particularly urgent. The FAO Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for boosting decent jobs for youth in the agri-food system project, currently implemented in Senegal, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Guatemala, aims to address this challenge by creating more and better employment opportunities for youth in rural areas and agri-food systems. To do so, ICA combines different interventions, such as capacity development, institutional support, knowledge generation and partnership creation.
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    Report and Appendices of the 40th General Session of The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD)
    Rome, 22-24 April 2013
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    The 40th General Session of the EuFMD Commission took place in Rome, Italy, on the 22 to 24th of April 2013, and was attended by representatives of 31 member countries. Representatives from ten observer countries, from the invited observer institutions with special Constitutional status (EC, OIE, FAO), and from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and civil society (industry) were registered and in attendance. There were in total around 100 persons.