FAO emergencies and resilience

Publications
12/2023

This report provides an overview of the Sudan’s summer season agricultural performance as of September 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.

10/2023

FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: November 2023 to April 2024 outlook

09/2023

Restoring and enhancing food production and strengthening agricultural livelihoods to support farming, herding and fishing communities

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.

06/2023

The ongoing conflict in the Sudan, which erupted on 15 April, has worsened an already fragile food security situation.

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.

04/2023

Food insecurity remains significantly high in the Sudan, driven by increased and prolonged instability and displacement, economic deterioration and high food prices.

02/2023

As a result of devasting floods in 2020, the livelihoods of farming and livestock keeping households across the Sudan were severely disrupted. 

12/2022

This report provides an update on the acute food insecurity in countries and territories that have the world’s highest burden of people in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance as a result of protracted conflict combined with other factors.

11/2022

This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a third-round assessment conducted in September 2022 in the Sudan.

06/2022

The Horn of Africa is facing the third severe La Niña‑induced drought episode in a decade, and the region is on the verge of a catastrophe if humanitarian assistance is not urgently scaled up and sustained.

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.

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.

03/2022

Between 19 December 2021 and 14 January 2022, following a request by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forest (MoA&F), the Food Security Technical Secretariat (FSTS), assisted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), carried out its annual Crop and Food Supply and Assessment Mission (CFSAM) .

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.

07/2021

This report shares an analysis by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the agri-food system in the Sudan.

07/2021

The worst desert locust outbreak in decades is underway in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen, where tens of thousands of hectares of cropland and pasture have been damaged in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, the Sudan, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Yemen, with potentially severe consequences for agriculture-based livelihoods in contexts where food security is already fragile.