Publications
Building agricultural resilience to natural hazard-induced disasters: Insights from country case studies
06/2021
Natural hazard‑induced disasters (NHID), such as floods, droughts, severe storms, and animal pests and diseases have significant, widespread and long‑lasting impacts on agricultural sectors around the world.
Bangladesh: Impact of Anticipatory Action
06/2021
This study documents the outcome of acting early to protect farming families in northwestern Bangladesh from impending floods.
Protecting livelihoods: Linking agricultural insurance and social protection
06/2021
The aim of this study is to provide readers with an overview of how agricultural insurance and social protection interventions can complement each other, within the frame of disaster risk management for vulnerable agricultural actors.
Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA): Annual Report 2020
05/2021
The Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) enables the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to take rapid and effective action in response to food and agricultural threats and emergencies.
Sierra Leone: Agricultural livelihoods and food security in the context of COVID-19
05/2021
This report shares the analysis on the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the agri-food system in Sierra Leone based on the assessment conducted during July–August 2020.
Zimbabwe: Agricultural livelihoods and food security in the context of COVID-19
05/2021
This report shares the analysis on the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the agri-food system in Zimbabwe based on the assessment conducted during July–August 2020.
Cross-country: Agricultural livelihoods and food security in the context of COVID-19
05/2021
The assessment presented in this report uses livelihood survey data collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from June to November 2020 in 11 highly food insecure countries.
Global Report on Food Crises 2021
05/2021
The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2021) highlights the remarkably high severity and numbers of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent in 55 countries/territories, driven by persistent conflict, pre-existing and COVID-19-related economic shocks, and weather extremes.
The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021
03/2021
On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms of magnitudes previously unseen, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yemen: Agricultural livelihoods and food security in the context of COVID-19
03/2021
With financial support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads the establishment of a data and analysis facility in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other shocks.
Call for Action to avert famine in 2021
03/2021
The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity has remained persistently above 100 million over the last four years.
Liberia: Agricultural livelihoods and food security in the context of COVID-19
03/2021
This report shares the analysis on the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the agri-food system in Liberia based on the assessment conducted during July–September 2020.
Bangladesh: Humanitarian Response Plan 2021
03/2021
Cox’s Bazar is one of the poorest and most vulnerable districts in Bangladesh, with development indicators that are far below the national average. Addressing the food security and livelihood needs of both refugees and host communities will require strengthening food systems, localizing production, enhancing market linkages and strengthening sustainable natural resource management.