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Laying foundation for digital revolution in Africa’s food systems

agricultureFood SecurityThe Africa Agriculture Status Report says digital technologies will address inefficiency, exclusivity, and unsustainability.

New report outlines how digital finance can drive women’s economic empowerment in Africa

Gender Equalitywomen
Dr. Njuki

For a food-secure world, invest in women and girls

Gender EqualitywomenWorld Food Day is 16 October: Why the case for empowering women, girls, and youth is urgent

How Africa can escape chronic food insecurity amid climate change

Food Securityclimate change

A new IMF policy paper says fiscal and financial policies and reforms such as technology transfer can reduce damage and help countries adapt

Ms. Maria Helena Semedo

Op-ed: We must act now to avert an imminent food crisis in Africa, says FAO Deputy Chief

AfricaFood Security
Children at an internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

Conflict-hit Nigerian families living under COVID-19 lockdowns, on ‘life-support’

AfricaCOVID-19
A woman carries sacks of seeds distributed to families in South Sudan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Secretary-General: Act now to avert COVID-19 global food emergency

AfricaCOVID-19
The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) is an international effort to improve nutrition, productivity and climatic adaptability of some of Africa’s most important food crops

Addressing Africa's nutrition challenges by strengthening indigenous crops

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

Using innovation to deliver in Somalia despite COVID-19

AfricaCOVID-19
Humanitarian aid being prepared by workers for loading next to airplane.

COVID-19: Humanitarian air deliveries to Africa ramped up with dispatch from UN's new cargo hub in Belgium

AfricaCOVID-19
Screengrab of the FAO-AU Ministerial (virtual) Meeting on the Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Security in Africa.

COVID-19: FAO and African Union commit to safeguarding food security amid crisis

AfricaCOVID-19
Swarm of Desert Locusts in Isiolo County in Kenya

FAO continues to fight desert locust upsurge in East Africa and Yemen despite COVID-19 constraints

AfricaFood Security