Publications
Sweden’s contribution to FAO’s emergencies operations, March 2025
03/2025
Sweden has reinforced its commitment to global food security with a total contribution of SEK 73 million (USD 7.23 million) to FAO’s emergencies operations in 2025.
The Sudan: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025
03/2025
After nearly two years of unrelenting conflict, the Sudan remains the world’s largest internal displacement crisis. Humanitarian needs continue to escalate at a staggering rate, with one in two people acutely food insecure.
The Sudan: Urgent call for assistance
03/2025
As it enters its third year of conflict, the Sudan continues to face one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises and the largest internal displacement crisis. Over half of the Sudan’s population is acutely food insecure, marking the highest level of hunger in the country’s history.
Around the table: Where hunger meets hope and opportunities grow
02/2025
Food is the great connector. It is survival and nourishment. It is family and tradition. It is hope and resilience. It is love. Sharing food around the table is an experience that binds us all.
FAO in the 2025 humanitarian appeals
12/2024
In 2024, escalating violence drove extreme hunger crises from Gaza and the Sudan to Haiti. The number of people facing, or projected to face, catastrophic hunger conditions more than doubled, rising from 705 000 in 2023 to 1.9 million people by mid-2024 across five countries/territories.
Hunger Hotspots: FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity, November 2024 to May 2025 outlook
10/2024
In the current edition of a regular joint bi-yearly report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is projected to worsen in 16 hunger hotspots, including a total of 14 countries and two regional clusters which comprise 8 countries, during the outlook period from November 2024 to May 2025.
Sudan: Assessment on the impact of floods
10/2024
The rapid assessment was conducted using remote sensing technologies by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) Data in Emergencies Impact (DIEM‑Impact) System, in addition to field-based contextual information from the country and secondary data.
The Sudan: Project Highlights - GCP/SUD/084/EC
10/2024
The European Union contributed EUR 6 million (USD 7 453 417) to the FAO project, "Greater stability in eastern Sudan through better and more informed decision-making in food security" which was implemented from 24 July 2018 to 30 September 2023.
International: Project Highlights - OSRO/INT/1040/GER
09/2024
The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany contributed EUR 27.75 million (USD 30 385 017) to the FAO project, "Livelihood response to mitigate the impacts of drought on food security and livelihoods", which was implemented from 1 February 2023 to 31 December 2023.
Global: Project Highlights - GCP/GLO/997/NET
08/2024
The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands contributed USD 28 million to the FAO project, "Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO): Building food system resilience in protracted crises", which was implemented from 1 October 2019 to 31 March 2023.
The Sudan: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2024
03/2024
With conflict raging since April 2023, the Sudan has rapidly become the world’s largest internal displacement crisis.
Monitoring food security in Palestine and the Sudan: A joint FAO/WFP update for the members of the United Nations Security Council, February 2024. Issue No. 13 (Special edition)
02/2024
This is the thirteenth update of the Monitoring food security in food crisis countries and territories with conflict situations, jointly produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to inform members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on critical food crises driven by conflict and insecurity.
The Sudan: Project Highlights - OSRO/SUD/200/USA
01/2024
The Government of the United States of America contributed USD 19 million to strengthen Food Security and Livelihoods sector coordination platforms, increase immediate food access and restore the productive capacities of 598 200 vulnerable farming and pastoral households in the Sudan.
The Sudan: Rapid assessment on the summer season agricultural performance - November 2023
12/2023
This report provides an overview of the Sudan’s summer season agricultural performance as of September 2023.
The Sudan: Response overview, November 2023
11/2023
The outbreak of conflict in the Sudan in April 2023 plunged the population into a humanitarian crisis. Over 20.3 million people are experiencing high acute food insecurity.
Hunger Hotspots: FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity
10/2023
FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: November 2023 to April 2024 outlook
The Sudan Emergency Livelihood Response Plan, September 2023–August 2024
09/2023
Restoring and enhancing food production and strengthening agricultural livelihoods to support farming, herding and fishing communities
The Sudan: DIEM – Data in Emergencies situation overview
06/2023
In collaboration with the FAO Representation in the Sudan, the FAO Subregional Office for Eastern Africa, the FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa, and the FAO Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, this DIEM – Data in Emergencies situation overview presents the potential impacts of the ongoing conflict on agriculture and food security in the Sudan.
The Sudan: Revised Humanitarian Response Plan 2023
06/2023
The ongoing conflict in the Sudan, which erupted on 15 April, has worsened an already fragile food security situation.
The Sudan: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 4
04/2023
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a fourth-round assessment conducted in January 2023 in the Sudan.