FAO Digital Media Hub - ITALY 2025 - FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol recording the video message on FAO response to Gaza post-ceasfire recovery.

ITALY 2025 - FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol recording the video message on FAO response to Gaza post-ceasfire recovery.

GAZA STRIP 2025 AGRICULTURE - FAO’s response to the post-ceasefire recovery in the Gaza strip

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ITALY 2025 - FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol recording the video message on FAO response to Gaza post-ceasfire recovery.

20 January 2025, Rome, Italy - FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol speaks during the recording of the video message on FAO response to Gaza post-ceasfire recovery. According to the latest geospatial assessment carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and UNOSAT between October and December 2024, 75 percent of the fields in Gaza once used to grow crops, as well as olive tree orchards, have been damaged or destroyed. Over two-thirds of agricultural wells (1,531 in total) are no longer functional, crippling irrigation. Livestock losses are at 96 percent, milk production has nearly halted, and only 1 percent of poultry remains alive. As a ceasefire agreement entered in action on 19 January 2025, FAO Deputy Director-General Bechdol said on 20 January that the ceasefire provides a critical opportunity to address the catastrophic food crisis in Gaza by enabling emergency aid delivery and initiating early recovery efforts, as the beginning of a long journey to recover from the devastation.

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01/20/2025

Location Rome

File size 11.60 MB

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