[cid:image001.jpg@01CDFA50.278D1EE0] [cid:image002.gif@01CDFA50.278D1EE0] Information from the field In December 2012, FAO appealed for USD 443 million <http://www.faosomalia.org/newsroom/103-fao-seeks-443-million-for-three-years-for-somalia-recovery> over the next three years to help Somalia recover from severe famine which ended early 2012. During years of conflicts, high food prices and droughts tens of thousands died, mostly children under the age of five and over 4 million Somali were thrown into acute food insecurity. Despite slow recoveries recently, still 2.12 million Somalis remain in crisis. Luca Alinovi, FAO Representative for Somalia, says that the appeal "aims at sustaining the momentum in order not only to avoid a repeat of last year's famine but also adequately to prepare communities in the most drought-prone zones to be able to face future crises with little help." ________________________________ Featured resource Worldwide Offices "La Representación de la FAO en México<http://coin.fao.org/cms/world/mexico/PaginaInicial.html>, ha lanzado un Observatorio de precios internacionales y nacionales de los alimentos que reúne información de diversos organismos e instituciones y la presenta de manera sistemática para que los usuarios puedan acceder a ella y utilizarla para análisis específicos. El Observatorio ofrece además un Boletín trimestral que analiza el impacto de las alzas de los precios de los alimentos sobre las condiciones de vida de la población nacional". ________________________________ Photo of the month [cid:image003.jpg@01CDFA50.278D1EE0] Somalia<http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index.asp?lang=en&iso3=SOM> Two girls herding goats to the Juba River. © FAO/Simon Maina ________________________________ Senior appointments in Decentralized Offices<http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/default/en/>: Cameroon, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Regional Office for Near East, Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, Liaison Office for North America, Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium. Did you know? ... that FAOLEX<http://faolex.fao.org/> provides you free online-access to the world's largest electronic collection of laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources? You can get online abstracts, full text of legislations and indexing information about each text. ________________________________ Not to be missed... FAO RNE: International Water Summit 2013<http://neareast.fao.org/Pages/Events.aspx?I=0&DId=0&CId=0&lang=EN&CMSId=685&id=1016> The inaugural International Water Summit will be hosted by Masdar and co-located with the World Future Energy Summit at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), United Arab Emirates from 15 to 17 January 2013. The first International Water Summit will gather the leading minds from the global water community in policy, business and science to accelerate the development of sustainable water solutions for arid regions. ________________________________ They refer to us... W3C Communities: UN FAO - an authority for a country web schema<http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/ExternalEnumerations> ________________________________ [cid:image004.jpg@01CDFA50.278D1EE0] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FAOCountryProfiles-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(FAOCountryProfiles-L,SIGNOFF);