Publications
Haiti: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
Currently, nearly half of Haiti’s population is facing high levels of acute food insecurity – a figure that has doubled in the last four years – and 43 percent live in rural areas. Supporting agricultural production yields high returns.
Guatemala: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
In Guatemala, the most vulnerable populations are subsistence farming families who were severely affected by Hurricanes Eta and Iota in late 2020 and still have not recovered. The effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions further worsened the situation.
Burkina Faso: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
More than half of Burkina Faso is experiencing conflict and insecurity, forcing thousands from their homes, disrupting livelihoods and further aggravating the food security situation.
Central African Republic: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
The food security situation in the Central African Republic remains alarming with over 43 percent of the population currently in acute food insecurity. Of these, the majority live in rural areas and mainly rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.
Northeastern Nigeria: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
Nigeria faces a severe food crisis. The protracted armed insurgency in northeastern Nigeria has displaced thousands of people, leaving them without the means to produce food and increasing their dependency on humanitarian aid.
Mali: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
Mali is experiencing alarming levels of food insecurity. Over 1.8 million Malians are projected to be in high acute food insecurity in June–August 2022. This represents a 41-percent increase compared with the same period ast year.
The Niger: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
The Niger has recorded its highest number of food-insecure people in the last eight years. Increased armed conflict and floods have nearly doubled the number of internally displaced people in the last three.
Honduras: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
The number of acutely food-insecure people in Honduras has doubled in just over a year, due to the combined impact of COVID-19, poverty and climate-related disasters.
Iraq: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
In Iraq, years of instability have led to the collapse of national systems, leaving already vulnerable populations at further risk of increased food insecurity. As a result, hundreds of thousands depend on food aid.
El Salvador: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
In El Salvador, 14 percent of people are acutely food insecure. Hunger affects 46 percent more Salvadorians today than before the COVID-19 pandemic mainly due to its economic impacts, extreme climate events and structural challenges.
Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Crisis Joint Response Plan 2022
04/2022
Nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh live in camps in Cox’s Bazar and on the island of Bhasan Char, relying entirely on humanitarian aid.
The Sudan: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
Thirty percent of Sudanese are expected to need life-sustaining support in 2022, the highest number in the past decade. A combination of shocks and stressors, including conflict, population displacement and economic decline, has resulted in alarmingly high levels of food insecurity.
Mozambique: Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
04/2022
Four out of five Mozambicans rely on agriculture to provide for themselves. The agricultural production of 4.6 million smallholder farmers accounts for 75 percent of the country’s total production, with 90 percent of all agricultural land cultivated by these smallholder farmers.
Ukraine: Note on the impact of the war on food security in Ukraine
03/2022
FAO is deeply concerned about the food security situation in Ukraine. The war that began on 24 February 2022 has caused extensive damage and loss of life in key population centres, spread across rural areas, and sparked massive displacement.
Assessing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of rural people
03/2022
In this paper we focus specifically on differences in the welfare impacts of COVID-19 on rural livelihoods between countries using nationally representative data that we disaggregate by food system typology.
Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health: Annual report
02/2022
The Emergency Management Centre-Animal Health (EMC-AH) activity report reflects how through the core pillars of its strategic action plan: preparedness, response, incident coordination, collaboration and resource mobilization, EMC-AH contributed to strengthening resilience of livelihoods to animal health-related emergencies and zoonoses.
Economic inclusion and social protection to reduce poverty
12/2021
Poverty reduction, economic inclusion and social protection in the Near East and North Africa region
Appels humanitaires de la FAO en 2022
12/2021
L’aide d'urgence aux moyens d’existence permet de répondre à des besoins immédiats liés à la faim, des aliments nutritifs étant ainsi produits là où la nécessité se fait le plus sentir, et offre un moyen de sortir de crises alimentaires qui ne font que se prolonger et s’aggraver.
The Niger: Analysis of conflicts over transhumance in Diffa region
11/2021
Located in the eastern part of Niger, Diffa region is a vast semi-arid expanse, where the balance between agricultural and pastoral activities is being disrupted by new competition for natural resources and also by conflict between indigenous livestock farmers and transhumant pastoralists.