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Christabel Kwasi, a young Ghanian farmer and mother, learned that with better farming practices, she and her family can rely on fonio all year-round.

Cultivating fonio, cultivating traditions

Social Protection

In Gabon, the growing demand for fish offers new opportunities for young people in aquaculture

Agriculture youth unemployment

The 2022 SOFI report provides updates on the food security and nutrition situation around the world.

Global hunger numbers rose to as many as 828 million in 2021

food malnutrition

Cameroonian activist, Cécile Ndjebet, winner of the 2022 Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award.

Cameroonian activist wins Wangari Maathai Forest Champions’ Award 2022

Seedlings laid out ready for planting in land prepared by the Delfino plough in Djibo, Burkina Faso.

Bringing degraded African land back to life

Sahel agriculture

Perched on the heights of Mount el Gorrâa, the gardens of Djebba el Olia form a unique agroforestry system.

Tunisia’s unique farming systems win recognition as part of the global agricultural heritage

Farmers wear masks during a Farmer Field School session on COVID-19 prevention in Malanje Province, Lombe community. Angola has very few cases of COVID-19, and FAO together with the Angolan government, is working to keep it that way

Stopping COVID-19 from reaching family farmers in Angola

When sea cucumbers are farmed sustainably, they can boost biodiversity and livelihoods in Zanzibar.

How sea cucumbers are boosting the bioeconomy in Zanzibar

Africa climate change

A stark hunger outlook means finding new ways to reach Somalis in need

Using innovation to deliver in Somalia despite COVID-19

Africa COVID-19