Publications
Somalia: Shocks, agricultural livelihoods and food security
11/2021
Monitoring report – November 2021 This report shares an analysis of the effects of natural and man-made shocks in Somalia’s the agri-food system. It analyses the results of a field assessment conducted in August 2021.
Good emergency management practice: The essentials
11/2021
Animal health emergencies are evolving, but they remain among the most challenging situations a country can confront. Infectious diseases and other threats have increasing potential to spread rapidly within a country or around the world due to growing populations, concentration of animal populations and market intensification, human and animal movement, and global trade.
Cash transfers and women's economic inclusion
11/2021
This paper investigates whether an increase in exogenous income through the Child Grants model of the Social Cash Transfer programme in Zambia fosters economic inclusion among rural women.
Food and nutrition security resilience programme in Somaliland: Baseline report
11/2021
This report acts as a baseline for the Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a four-year programme of USD 28 million funded by the Government of the Netherlands.
Chile: Building agricultural resilience to climate risks
10/2021
This case study describes the Republic of Chile’s approach to building agricultural resilience to natural hazard-induced disasters, particularly climate risks.
Namibia: Building agricultural resilience to animal pests and diseases
10/2021
This case study focuses on the Republic of Namibia’s ex ante approach to preventing, controlling, and managing animal pest and disease outbreaks, which are often exacerbated by climate-related disasters, such as floods and droughts.
Social protection and migration
10/2021
This publication was developed by the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (UNU-Merit) in partnership with FAO. The policy paper is conceived as a framing paper, which conceptualizes the relationship between social protection, migration, and rural development, and strengthens these synergies for FAO’s programming.
Key COVID-19 Lessons and Recommendations for Working Towards Universal Social Protection
10/2021
The paper contains a joint statement by the Social Protection Interagency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B), a coordination mechanism comprising of a broad swath of intergovernmental and bilateral agencies engaged in social protection, drawing from the lessons drawn in the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Desert locust: Progress report on the response in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen (May–August 2021)
10/2021
The fight against desert locust continues in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen, now raging for 20 months – since January 2020. Collective efforts from governments, FAO and partners are proving extremely effective in controlling this upsurge, which is the worst to hit the region in 70 years.
Syrian Arab Republic: Precipitation analysis
10/2021
This technical paper provides an analysis of the spatio-temporal trends of precipitation in the Syrian Arab Republic from 1980–2021, an analysis of precipitation during the 2020/21 agricultural season by governorate, and the implications for agricultural production.
September update of the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises
10/2021
The September update of the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) reports on the magnitude and severity of acute food insecurity in 2021 in countries that qualified as food crises in 2020 in the GRFC 2021.
Progressive pathway for emergency preparedness
10/2021
The Progressive pathway for emergency preparedness (PPEP) is a capability building process and a tool that enables countries to self-assess and standardise their animal health emergency management capacity needs.
The Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme in South Sudan: Baseline report
09/2021
This report acts as a baseline for the Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a four-year programme of USD 28 million funded by the Government of the Netherlands.
The Niger - Analysis of conflicts related to the exploitation of natural resources (IN FRENCH)
09/2021
L’analyse des conflits liés à l’accès aux ressources naturelles au Niger a permis de mettre en évidence l’ampleur et la complexité de ces conflits.
