Today’s COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the critical role of rice in ensuring global food security while combating climate change.
The EU is providing an additional €105.5 million to countries in the Horn of Africa as the coronavirus pandemic risks worsening the humanitarian situation across the region where many continue to suffer from armed conflict, displacement, and recurrent droughts and floods. Furthermore, a large-scale infestation of locusts threatens food security and livelihoods of many vulnerable people in the region.
(New York/Geneva/Rome, 13 May 2020) Conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic present a significant threat to life in Libya. The health and safety of the country’s entire population are at risk.
UNICEF launches #Reimagine, a global campaign to prevent the pandemic from becoming a lasting crisis for children.
Integration of Senegal within the jobs calculator, the interactive tool of the Data portal for agro-economic Modelling (DataM).
BAGHDAD – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are stepping up their collaboration to help meet the essential needs of vulnerable people in Iraq. WFP has worked with UNHCR and partners to identify an additional 35,000 Syrian refugees and 10,000 people displaced by conflict who will be included in WFP food assistance programmes to help them cope with the impact of COVID-19.
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2020 — The World Bank activated US$9.5 million on April 23 to provide immediate funding for Haiti’s agriculture sector to support food security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The second issue of the Newsletter about DeSIRA initiative is now available.
Heavy rains favour reproduction, second wave of locusts expected during upcoming harvest.
Webinar hosted by the Food Security Portal.
The passing of Cyclone Harold on 6 April 2020 caused extensive damage to the agriculture sector, including losses of main staples and export crops.
FAO expects subdued usage to push up cereal stocks in 2019/20 and FAO’s first forecast for wheat markets in 2020/21 points to continued growth in inventories.
The UN’s Humanitarian Chief, Mark Lowcock, has called for swift and determined action to avoid the most destabilizing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as he releases a $6.7 billion appeal and an updated global plan to fight coronavirus in fragile countries.
The announcement of the arrival of coronavirus in their country is raising concerns among Ivorian cocoa planters. Although, in the short term, these planters continue to be able to feed their families thanks to their own food production, they nevertheless fear a drop in their income from cocoa. This situation would then jeopardize their food purchases between now and the end of the year. An analysis by François Ruf, an agroeconomist at CIRAD, produced in Abidjan in collaboration with observers from the NGO SADRCI and from GIZ, the German Agency for International Cooperation.
News of actions with the Central America DeSIRA project, AGROINNOVA, to provide innovation based solutions to the COVID19 crisis.
BAMAKO – As the world braces for the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 health pandemic, Germany has reaffirmed its commitment to the long-term improvement of livelihoods and food security in Mali through an EUR 11 million contribution to the United Nations World Food Programme’s life-changing activities in the country.
To avoid societal collapses and their many potential ripple effects on world security, we must act now to flatten the food insecurity curve.
In the time of crisis such as the world is living through now, it is critical to use available resources as efficiently as possible.
