The number of people facing acute food insecurity has risen from 161 million last year, to 222 million today.
To reverse this trend, we need to focus more on humanitarian agricultural aid that helps people grow food where it is most needed.
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globally, in line with its mandate.
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Our 🆕 Future of food and agriculture report 2022: Drivers and triggers for transformation is out today
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But what are millets exactly?
For starters, millets include pearl, proso, foxtail, barnyard, little, kodo, browntop, finger, guinea, fonio, sorghum & teff.
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to help them store grain directly in fields.
These temporary storage solutions will buy time for more than 1 500 farmers & avoid disruptions in the global food market.
& the G77 & China is more critical than ever for One FAO. Thank you for your strong support. I look forward to continue working together to meet our common goal of transforming agrifood systems & achieving #4Betters in support of #SDGs.
to lead the Food Systems Integrated Program. We must accelerate agrifood system transformation together and put agriculture at the center of solutions to the biodiversity, food & #ClimateCrisis. #ForNature
@theGEF tasked @FAO & @IFAD to lead new $230 million agrifood systems transformation program.
The initiative aims to support shifts towards sustainable nature-positive production & efficient value chains for crops, commodities, livestock, aquaculture.
https://fao.org/newsroom/detail/gef-tasks-fao-and-ifad-to-lead-new-230-million-agrifood-systems-transformation-program/en…
assisted over 30M people in rural areas for whom agriculture is their means of survival. As acute hunger continues to escalate, I call on Members to spare no efforts to help save lives & livelihoods. In 2023, with $1.9B FAO can help 48M people in dire need.
In 2023, @FAO will require $1.9 billion to reach 48 million people with life-saving and livelihood assistance.
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Risk-informed preparedness and #AnticipatoryAction can save lives, safeguard livelihoods and strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities to future shocks and stresses.
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As 2022 nears an end,
🔸conflict
🔸weather extremes
🔸rising prices
🔸COVID-19…
…have pushed 222 million people into high acute food insecurity.
With $1.9 billion,
FAO has cleared up half a million kg of highly toxic DDT - the biggest known stockpile of the obsolete #pesticide in the world - which was stored in warehouses in the middle of Bangladesh's second biggest city for 37 years. It will be incinerated in France. Thanks to
🆕#FAOSTAT data tool explores where the “food dollar” goes.
Food Value Chain domain analyzes resource flows beyond the farm sector & breaks down national food expenditures by final consumers through the different stages of the agrifood value chains.
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in welcoming the new political commitment at #AMROman2022 to the Muscat Manifesto, which targets reducing by at least a third the total amount of antimicrobials used in agrifood systems. #AntimicrobialResistance
met with Hungary's Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy to discuss global food security challenges, including water issues, and the Hand-in-Hand Initiative as a possible solution for better cooperation. #HandinHand
are supporting Jordan's olive oil sector, by helping SMEs to become more productive & sustainable, ensuring that the highest quality standards are met.
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FAO and Oman sign a framework agreement for a strategic partnership under the South-South and Triangular Cooperation modality.
For more info, click here👉http://bit.ly/3GJ3BhP#SSTC#SouthSouth
’s Plenary Hall & enhance its multilingual capacity. The Plenary hosts FAO Members & partners, united in efforts to ensure global #FoodSecurity & achieve the #4Betters.
👩🏫Non-formal education approach
💡 Innovation & knowledge co-creation
👩🌾👨🌾Improving skills of millions of food producers
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Vaccinating a goat can make a huge difference for rural families that depend on livestock for their livelihoods & nutrition👇💉Vaccinating an animal👉 0.40 USD
🐐Losing one animal👉 100 USD
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- #WTO joint study calls for urgent action to address the fertilizer crisis and keep trade flow, noting:
⏹️ Fertilizer shortfall will persist into 2023;
⏹️ It threatens agricultural production, food security in Africa in particular.
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expert bodies & professional consultations are essential to achieve the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient & sustainable agrifood systems -
When it comes to ensuring the health of people, plants, animals & our planet, we must work together to find ways to reduce the need for antimicrobials.
A #OneHealth approach is crucial to preventing, detecting & controlling diseases & #AntimicrobialResistance.
#AMR
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