Publications

Saving lives, time and money: Evidence from anticipatory action - May 2025
05/2025
In the context of an existential funding crisis, soaring levels of humanitarian need and a spiralling number of extreme weather events, each dollar spent must go further.

El Niño 2023–2024: Evidence from FAO's anticipatory action interventions - May 2025
05/2025
Ahead of the 2023–2024 El Niño-induced hazards, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented anticipatory actions in 24 countries, reaching 1.7 million people with timely and preventive support.

Colombia: Project Highlights - OSRO/COL/135/GER
04/2025
Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities - Anticipatory Action Window, contributed USD 1 million to FAO's project entitled "Anticipatory actions for the protection of agricultural livelihoods exposed to the impact of the El Niño phenomenon in Colombia".

Colombia: Belgium's contribution through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) – Anticipatory Action window
09/2024
Colombia is currently transitioning from the El Niño phenomenon to La Niña, which brings significant climate challenges such as heavy rainfall, floods and landslides, putting over 9.3 million people at risk.

Colombia: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 5
06/2024
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a fifth-round assessment conducted in November and December 2023 in Colombia.

Contribution from the Government of Sweden to FAO: Annual report 2022
09/2023
In 2022, the Government of Sweden, through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, contributed nearly SEK 141 million (USD 14.5 million) to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Colombia: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 4
08/2023
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a fourth-round assessment conducted in January and February 2023 in Colombia.

Colombia: 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP); 2023 Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP)
05/2023
In Colombia, six out of ten conflict-affected households are food insecure and 26 percent of the population do not manage to eat three meals a day.

Colombia: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 3
11/2022
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a third-round assessment conducted between July and August 2022 in Colombia.

Colombia: 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP)
07/2022
Vulnerable households in Colombia remain affected by extreme weather events, armed violence, and the significant influx of refugees and migrants from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: June to September 2022 Outlook
06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 20 countries or situations (including two regional clusters) – called hunger hotspots – during the outlook period from June to September 2022.

2022 Global Report on Food Crises: Joint analysis for better decisions
04/2022
The 2022 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2022) highlights the alarming deterioration of acute food insecurity in 2021


Colombia: Humanitarian Response Plan 2021
03/2021
The situation in Colombia continues to be characterized by armed group activity as well as natural disasters, leading to increased humanitarian needs.

Colombia: Impact of Early Warning Early Action
12/2019
Boosting food security and social cohesion on the frontline of the migration crisis

Colombia: Humanitarian Response Plan 2019
02/2019
In 2018, the persistent conflict, increase in armed violence, the occurrence of natural disasters and migration flows have led to increased humanitarian needs in several regions of Colombia, particularly the northeastern border with Venezuela, the southern border with Ecuador, the pacific border with Panama and the North-West. F

Venezuela Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan 2019
02/2019
To date, some 3 million Venezuelans have left their country, the vast majority arriving to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in conditions of extreme vulnerability.