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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetHigh-profileEthiopia – Tigray: Belgium's contribution through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) 2022
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No results found.Through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities, the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium is supporting FAO's efforts to ensure the timely provision of fertilizers to meet the input needs of farmers in Tigray, Ethiopia. Belgium’s generous support will help cover transportation-related costs for delivering fertilizers to assist 37 926 households (189 639 people). This document provides a brief description of the current context of the intervention and highlights the importance of the contribution in enhancing the food security and resilience of crisis-affected populations. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetHigh-profileNorthern Ethiopia | Urgent call for assistance
Tigray, Afar, Amhara
2021Also available in:
No results found.Northern Ethiopia is experiencing one of world's worst food crises. As of June 2021, about 5.5 million people in Afar, Amhara and Tigray are in high acute food insecurity, representing nearly 61 percent of the analyzed population. Of these, 353 000 people are in Catastrophe level of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 5) in Tigray alone, the highest numbers recorded in the last decade. Since November 2020, when the conflict erupted, 1.7 million people have been displaced across Tigray and into neighbouring regions. The conflict commenced at the peak of the main agricultural season (Meher) harvest period when many households had not yet harvested their crops. It is estimated over 90 percent of the crop harvest was lost (looted, burned and/or destroyed) and 15 percent of the region’s 17 million livestock were reported looted or slaughtered. Given that the majority of households depend on subsistence agriculture, the loss of their harvest and production inputs has had a devastating impact on their food security and nutrition – 2 million people require urgent livelihood assistance. In response to the dire situation, FAO has already reprogrammed USD 2 million to immediately support agropastoral and pastoral households with seeds and livestock vaccination and treatment, but more needs to be done. FAO has developed a response plan and requires USD 30 million to assist 1.4 million people in need through December 2021. A worsening crisis can be prevented if action is taken now at scale to provide vulnerable communities in northern Ethiopia with vital livelihood assistance. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEmergency responseDemocratic Republic of the Congo: Urgent call for assistance
Deepening food crisis in eastern provinces
2025Also available in:
No results found.In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, intensified violence pepetrated by non-state armed groups is occurring at the start of harvests and of the lean season, disrupting agricultural production and the supply chain, and leading to food shortages and soaring prices. Crop fields have been looted or destroyed as well as other key productive assets, preventing affected populations from accessing produce and agricultural inputs. People fleeing insecurity are forced to abandon their livelihoods, with returnees often finding their fields occupied by others, increasing tensions and complicating efforts to reclaim vital farmland. The country already has the world’s highest number of people in acute food insecurity, with 32 percent in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 3 or above living in the eastern provinces. Humanitarian conditions are worsening and tens of thousands of people are forced to flee and increasingly adopt negative coping mechanisms to cover food needs such as reducing food consumption to one meal a day. FAO requires urgent funding to reach affected families in North and South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika provinces with emergency food production support.
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FAO Video Production Guidelines
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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.