Almost 230,000 people facing emergency and crisis levels of food insecurity in the first half of 2017 were able to secure a good harvest despite ongoing drought
FAO’s Famine Prevention and Drought Response Plan is part of a wider humanitarian response involving UN, and international and local partners to prevent famine
FAO is scaling up its activities in drought affected regions of Somalia thanks to a $22 million loan approved by the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)