FAO in the 2017 humanitarian appeals

In 2016, FAO reached 21 million crisis-affected people, helping them to produce and purchase food, maintain their livelihoods, stay on or return to their land where it was safe to do so and enabling them to provide for themselves. However, forecasts for 2017 are alarming. Millions of people – many of them children – face the very real threat of starvation in Madagascar, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen. Drought is once again threatening herders across the Horn of Africa, further under mining livelihoods that have yet to recover from the last drought. In Iraq and Syria, violence continues unabated, forcing people to abandon their homes and agriculture-based livelihoods. This destroys any development gains made and pushes people into food insecurity in the short term, making it harder to return and resume their livelihoods when stability is restored. In 2017, FAO is seeking over USD 1 billion to reach more than 40 million people.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	TCE - Emergency and Rehabilitation Division and SO5 team
Format:	Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	FAO ; 2016
Online Access:	https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/I6642EN http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6642e.pdf
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