Supporting peace through food security and resilience The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has collaborated with the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) since 2009 to support activities and programmes that contribute to building lasting peace in countries emerging from conflict. To date, FAO has received US$11.6 million in support from the PBF through 12 emergency projects, with more than 80 percent of them taking place in Africa. Beneficiary countries include Burundi, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, South Sudan, Uganda and Yemen.
FAO’s principal activities in these projects have centred on training, education, capacity building, rehabilitation of infrastructure, distribution of seeds, agricultural kits and livestock. Given that FAO and the PBF share many common concerns, there is substantial opportunity for expanding this collaboration, particularly in the areas of food security, livelihood support, Ebola response and resilience. These linkages are best constructed at country level, between the FAO Representatives and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) staff responsible for the PBF programme.