Anticipatory Action can reduce the impact of climate-induced disasters on rural communities. One example is the successful implementation of anticipatory action ahead of the El Niño-induced drought in Isabela Province, Philippines.
In Northern Ghana, women farmers are breaking barriers and transforming their communities through the FAO-European Union Food Security Response Project.
Since the 1970s, the number of annual disasters has surged, causing severe agricultural losses and food insecurity, which challenge sustainable rural development.
Breaking the national 30-year average rainfall record in Pakistan, the monsoon flooding in 2022 have affected 33 million people, wiping out agricultural lands, livestock assets, forests and critical agricultural infrastructure.
Konstantine Zarkua is a smallholder dairy farmer in the Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti region of Georgia. He has become a Lead Farmer of an FAO Farmer Field School, which was established in his home through the financial support of the European Union (EU) and Sweden, under the fourth phase of the European Neighbourhood Program for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD).