FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: federal grants and contributions: 45 agreements; $297M value; 1 departments; 3 programs.
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The project aims to strengthen the resilience of ecosystems and vulnerable populations, especially women and youth, to climate change in the regions bordering the Great Green Wall in Senegal, through reforestation, natured-based solutions, climate resilient agriculture, inclusive climate governance and advocacy. The GGW is a flagship initiative of the African Union that involves 11 countries and aims at countering the effects of desertification.
Canada’s assessed contribution to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Canada’s assessed contribution to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Canada’s assessed contribution to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
This project aims to improve gender-responsive climate smart agriculture and food systems in the Caribbean. It recognizes the disproportionate impact of food price inflation, supply chain disruptions and climate change on the region. This project supports women and vulnerable groups in achieving food security and enhancing resilience to climate change. Project activities include: (1) designing and sharing knowledge products to facilitate the adoption of gender-responsive climate smart technologies, innovations, and practices; (2) enhancing production facilities to improve operations, climate r
This project seeks to promote gender equality and the economic empowerment of rural women and men by increasing the adaptive capacities of poor and vulnerable rural populations to climate change, including landless, unemployed, under or seasonally employed individuals, in the Aswan, Beheira and Kafr El Sheikh Governorates of Egypt. The project seeks to develop and implement nature-based and climate-resilient agricultural practices that promote the sustainable use of natural resources, increase agricultural productivity, and improve livelihoods and food security. Project activities include: (1)
This project aims to enhance the resilience of communities to respond to worsening climate conditions that disrupt agricultural production and food systems in South Sudan. It seeks to work with women and men smallholder farmers to diversify their agricultural sources of income through climate-resilient techniques and assets. The project also aims to empower women to manage community-based tree nurseries and seed banks and access new opportunities in fishing, fruit farming, beekeeping and small livestock. Project activities include: (1) building the capacity of women and men smallholder farmers
The Enhancing Climate-Resilient Agriculture and Livelihoods for Women and Youth in Sudan project aims to improve food security for 49,500 people, particularly women and youth, in rural areas of Sudan. Project activities include (1) Providing training to develop capacities of state, local actors, NGOs, and local communities to plan, implement, and mobilize resources for integrated landscape management; (2) Establishing and operating 160 climate-sensitive farmer field and business schools to promote climate-resilient agricultural technologies and practices; (3) Train women through 12 WE-FBS (Wom
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’s "Scaling Up Gender-Inclusive and Climate-Resilient Livelihoods Program in Somalia" responds to Somalia's significant climate vulnerability and expressed need for greater climate-adaptation support. As one of the root causes of the country's cyclical and prolonged humanitarian crises, climate change in Somalia requires an increased focus on inclusive and conflict-sensitive natural resource management, climate-related disaster risk planning, climate-resilient livelihoods and inclusive and gender-sensitive governance. This projec
The project aims to improve the quality of life of rural and indigenous women and youth whose livelihoods depend on forest resources in 12 municipalities of Western Honduras. It seeks to improve the governance for the conservation and sustainable management of the forest and its associated biodiversity, led by rural and indigenous women and youth. The project also seeks to increase the economic empowerment of these women and youth by helping them to use forest resources and biodiversity in alignment with municipal climate change and development plans. Project activities are expected to benefit
This project aims to improve the livelihoods of rural Lebanese and Syrian refugee women and contributes to their empowerment through training in business management, communication skills and legal issues related to women’s rights. This project supports women-led cooperatives and associations to establish sustainable income-generating enterprises. It supports an enabling environment for women by reinforcing the capacity of relevant institutions and organisations to provide more equitable services. It also provides training to Ministry of Agriculture staff in mainstreaming gender equality in the
This project aims to reduce poverty and build the resilience of the vulnerable rural farmers and families in Lebanon that have been most impacted by the economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. It supports livelihoods by developing a more sustainable, small-scale and integrated family-owned farming systems with strong ties to local agriculture and the livestock feed supply chain. It integrates climate change adaptation and sustainable resource management, including initiatives that focus on composting and using natural fertilizers. The project strengthens an enabling environment to ensure th
April 2022 - Global food insecurity is rising at an increasing rate, exacerbated by conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Rigorous and reliable food security analysis is critical to ensuring humanitarian decision makers can deploy resources effectively. With GAC’s support, the Global Strategic Programme of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), aims to provide the humanitarian sector with the best possible food security analysis upon which to base their decisions, to help ensure needs-based polic
April 2025 - Global food insecurity is rising at an increasing rate, exacerbated by conflict, climate change and rising inflation. Rigorous and reliable food security analysis is critical to ensuring humanitarian decision makers can use resources effectively. With GAC’s support, the Global Strategic Programme of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), helps to provide the humanitarian sector with the best possible food security analysis upon which to base their decisions, to help ensure needs-based policy and p
The project will aim to improve the living conditions and food security of 10,000 persons living in the dry corridor of El Salvador, by promoting the participation and empowerment of rural women and youth, with a focus on nutrition, climate change adaptation, and management of water-forest-soil resources. This project will aim to strengthen food security and climate resilience, with a nutrition-sensitive approach that considers adaptation to climate change, good management and conservation of water-forest-soil resources; promote the participation and economic empowerment of rural women and yo
Emergency Support to Vulnerable Herders & Food Security Coordination
This project aims to strengthen the resilience of agro-sylvo-pastoral communities in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, once known as “the breadbasket of Burkina Faso.” The region now struggles to play that role because of soil, forest and water resource degradation. In Burkina Faso, against a backdrop that already includes climate, security, and humanitarian shocks, the COVID-19 pandemic is having a negative impact on all activity sectors. The project focuses on greater empowerment through the mastery of practices and measures to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and climate change. The project act
This project aims to strengthen social cohesion, resilience and empowerment of women and girls in the face of climate change in the Lake Chad and Kanem provinces of Chad. The project activities include: 1) providing technical support to administrative authorities and the regional council and local elected officials for improved decision-making on social cohesion ; 2) training women's and girls' groups on the practice of smart agriculture in the context of climate change; 3) developing business plans for the empowerment of women and girls; and 4) providing financial credits to women and girls.
October 2022 - This project supports the Anticipatory Action (AA) implementing window of the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA). The SFERA enhances FAO’s capacity to rapidly respond to food and agricultural threat and emergencies around the world. The AA window of the SFERA will respond to global food insecurity by providing emergency agriculture assistance ahead of onset crises in countries facing high level of acute food insecurity. Project activities include: (1) interventions to protect the livelihoods of affected communities, including cash and agricultural s
February 2020 - Widespread Desert Locust outbreaks are occurring across eastern Africa and parts of the Middle East, posing a severe and ongoing threat to food security in several countries already facing acute crises. Control operations are underway but local capacity is limited and locusts continue to breed. Without immediate action to control the growth of the swarms, tens of millions of people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and other countries could face starvation. With support from GAC and other international donors, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
This project aims to increase the resilience and adaptability of fishermen and fisherwomen to the climate changes affecting their livelihoods and food security, in the vulnerable coastal communities of Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. The project works to help local and national governments apply gender-responsive approaches to: (1) incorporating climate change considerations into local fisheries management; (2) improving community preparedness for natural disasters; and (3) developing resilient and gender-inclusive fisheries and aquaculture value chains.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations program aims to restore resilient, inclusive and sustainable agricultural livelihoods, especially for ethnic minority women affected by Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam. The project supports the recovery of agricultural livelihoods while addressing both immediate needs and fostering long-term resilience to mitigate future risks. It focuses particularly on empowering women and ethnic minority populations by strengthening their capacities and ensuring their active participation and leadership in the recovery process. Project activities
March 2020 – In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic, the United Nations launched the Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) on March 25th, 2020. The GHRP seeks to respond to the direct public health and immediate humanitarian consequences of the pandemic. The GHRP’s three strategic priorities: (1) containing the spread of the pandemic; (2) decreasing the deterioration of human assets and rights, social cohesion and livelihoods; and (3) protecting, assisting and advocating for refugees, internally displaced people, migrants and host communities particularly vulnerable to th
June 2019 - Two years after the 2016-2017 drought brought Somalia and parts of Ethiopia to the brink of famine, severe climatic conditions are again pushing the Horn of Africa towards a major humanitarian emergency. Currently, an estimated 11.4 million people are facing acute food insecurity due to drought or displacement in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda. Without immediate humanitarian action, it is estimated that as many as 17 million people across the region could be acutely food insecure as soon as August. With support from GAC and other international donors, the United Nations Food
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focuses on developing, protecting and restoring sustainable livelihoods so that the integrity of societies that depend on farming, livestock, fish, forests and other natural resources is not threatened by crises. FAO contributes to a quicker and more sustainable recovery of local food production while preserving development gains, reducing dependency on aid and increasing self-reliance of crisis-affected populations. With the support of GAC and other donors, FAO is providing emergency assistance to over 4.3 million people affec
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.