FAO emergencies and resilience

KORE - Knowledge and learning in action

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Knowledge management is about identifying, co-creating and sharing solutions to help solve challenges, so others can learn from and apply them. Knowledge management and learning processes contribute to acknowledging, valuing and elevating the experience and know-how of men and women on the frontline of the fight against food crises. Investing in systematic knowledge management and learning underpins more effective emergency response and resilience programming, by providing organizations and stakeholders with robust evidence and knowledge on what works and why, to inform policies and actions, and bring about desired changes.

The Knowledge sharing platform on Emergencies and Resilience – KORE, facilitates the promotion and uptake of knowledge and learning to inform strategic and programmatic decision-making. KORE supports the collection and use of evidence-based and cross-sectoral knowledge to position FAO as a lead agency across the emergency and resilience portfolio of food and agriculture interventions.

KORE's main technical functions include:

  • Supporting FAO offices worldwide with the integration of knowledge and learning processes into their emergency and resilience programming while aligning to strategic planning and priorities as well as analytical processes and MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning).
  • Developing normative and methodological guidance, materials, and tools to support effective knowledge management and learning for programme quality.
  • Developing knowledge management and learning capacities, and supporting FAO offices and technical teams in the identification, documentation, generation and dissemination of good practices and evidence-based knowledge to inform programming and policymaking.
  • Acting as a knowledge broker and facilitating multi-sectoral knowledge sharing and co-creation with key stakeholders active in addressing food crises and building the resilience of agricultural livelihoods.
News
News
South Sudan: Improving catches and reducing post-harvest losses for fishing communities in Bor South through knowledge
14/07/2021

“I’ve spent most of my life on the canoe fishing, but fish always spoiled and food was never enough”, recalls Deng Abdulai. 

News
Allowing communities in Rumbek to dream big through new knowledge and agricultural production
12/04/2021

Allowing communities in Rumbek to dream big through new knowledge and agricultural production

News
FAO strengthens desert locust surveillance and control capacity in Yemen
10/02/2021

FAO strengthens desert locust surveillance and control capacity in Yemen

Publications
Publications
Enhancing food security and sustaining livelihoods through social protection in Somalia
01/2026

Somalia faces protracted crises driven by climate shocks, conflict and disease, resulting in recurrent food insecurity and high poverty.

Publications
Somalia: Durable solutions for internally displaced people
12/2025

This learning brief documents the experiences and insights gained from the third phase of the United Nations Joint Action for Building Resilience in...

Publications
FAO good practices of climate action in food crisis and fragile contexts
10/2025

Communities in food crisis and fragile contexts are on the frontline of the climate crisis. FAO helps countries prevent, anticipate, absorb, adapt and...

 
 
Multimedia
Video
Communities at the heart of anticipatory action (Animation)
11/12/2025

Engaging communities is at the heart of FAO’s emergency and resilience work. In the field of anticipatory action—where the window between a warning...

Video
Communities at the heart of anticipatory action
13/11/2025

Engaging communities is at the heart of FAO’s emergency and resilience work. In the field of anticipatory action—where the window between a warning...

Video
Dimitra Clubs and Farmer Field Schools face off against COVID-19
09/03/2023

Leveraging the power of community groups.