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Swarms from Arabia arrive in Persian Gulf On 20 February, immature swarms from the Arabian Peninsula reached the shores of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the southwest coast of Iran...

The two main rainfall seasons for Somalia are Gu (April-June) and Deyr (October-December). The time series maps show the changes in rainfall performance month-on-month compared to the monthly...

The worst desert locust crisis in 25 years is underway in Ethiopia, where around 90 000 ha of cropland and pasture are already reported to have been infested. As more than 80 percent of people in...

Three United Nations (UN) agencies have launched the Safe Access to Fuel and Energy Plus Livelihoods (SAFE Plus) project in Dhaka alongside the Government of Bangladesh to mitigate deforestation and...

Food security worsened significantly in areas hit by last year’s floods Juba – Some 6.5 million people in South Sudan – more than half of the population - could be in acute food insecurity at the...

In 2019, Food Security and Agriculture sector partners supported 9,421 Syrians under Temporary Protection (SuTPs) and host community members, nearly half of them were women. Out of these, 4,030...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has started training 300 National Youth Service (NYS) trainees as part of its action plan to boost the Government of Kenya's...

Between 2018 and the first half of 2019, Haiti experienced a long period of drought due to the El Niño phenomenon. As a result, agricultural production decreased by at least 12 percent compared with...

Widespread breeding in progress in the Horn of Africa The situation remains extremely alarming in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia where widespread Desert Locust infestations and a new generation of...

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT National cereal production in 2020 expected to decrease from high outturn in 2019, but remain at near-average level Paddy harvest in 2019 estimated at above-average level,...