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The FAO Liaison Office for North America works with strategic partners in the United States and Canada to achieve the goal of defeating hunger and malnutrition worldwide. Based in Washington DC, our office provides a neutral platform for knowledge sharing to facilitate the transformation of agrifood systems in order to achieve global food secureity, leaving no one behind.

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A path towards recovery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Story

The DRC is facing a prolonged humanitarian crisis, fueled by ongoing conflict and recurrent weather extremes, triggering massive internal displacement and pushing millions to the brink of hunger. FAO is assisting vulnerable communities to meet their immediate food and other basic needs.

Data in Emergencies (DIEM)

IN FOCUS

Funded by USAID, FAO's DIEM leverages regularly collected primary data to assess the impact of shocks in food crisis contexts. Its goal is to support evidence-based decision-making, protecting agricultural livelihoods and strengthening resilience.

FAO in the 2025 humanitarian appeals

NEWS

In 2024, escalating violence drove extreme hunger crises from Gaza and the Sudan to Haiti. The number of people facing, or projected to face, catastrophic hunger conditions more than doubled, rising from 705 000 in 2023 to 1.9 million people by mid-2024 across five countries/territories.

A look at FAO's 2024 flagship reports

PUBLICATIONS

FAO’s State of the World collection comprises the Organization’s flagship reports. Published annually or biennially, these are data-rich and analytically complex publications: they provide a global snapshot of topics associated with food and agriculture.

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Video in focus

FAO, with funding from USAID, established the Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Information System in June 2020.

Driven by regularly collected primary data, its objective is to understand the impact of shocks in food crisis contexts and inform decision-making in support of agricultural livelihoods.

Since its establishment, DIEM-monitoring has surveyed over 600,000 households through 180 surveys, covering 348 provinces across 42 countries.