Global Food and Nutrition Security

RPCA annual meeting on 09/12/19 - Paris, OECD Conference Centre.

The European Union has adopted additional funding worth €275 million from the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa for programmes in the Horn of Africa and in the Sahel and Lake Chad region that support regional stability and local communities and assist migrants and refugees.

Opportunities and challenges of megatrends for a comprehensive EU-Africa Partnership.

The INFORM Global Crisis Severity Index (GCSI) for November 2019 is now available.

The EU Agricultural Outlook conference has now become the key annual gathering of European stakeholders willing to engage and discuss the future of agriculture in Europe and the challenges which lie ahead.

Honduras: Nearly 1 million people in severe food insecurity.

The European Commission has today announced €50 million to help the most vulnerable people affected by the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The funding will address urgent needs and provide continued support to the Congolese population, notably to improve food security and access to quality health services.

The November edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.

Despite overall satisfactory agricultural production, continuing civil insecurity in the region is worsening food and nutrition vulnerability, with 9.4 to 14.4 million people in need of immediate assistance.

The European Commission and Denmark signed a transfer agreement for a voluntary contribution of around €10 million (DKK 75 million) to the EU External Investment Plan.

It has been reported that numerous brands of maize flour have been taken off supermarket shelves in Kenya due to potentially unsafe levels of the poisonous substance, aflatoxin.

During his visit to Rwanda, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica has announced a €10.3 million support package to the UNHCR's Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Rwanda, which provides a life-saving avenue out of Libya for people in need of international protection, with a view to their further resettlement.

Food and Agriculture report focuses on food losses and waste, providing new estimates of the world’s food lost from production and up to, but excluding, the retail level. Addressing policy makers, the report also offers a comprehensive analysis of the critical loss points in specific supply chains, thus providing examples on appropriate measures for an effective reduction.

The European Union will invest €20 million in rural development in Uzbekistan. €10 million will be spent on developing job skills in rural areas. €5 million will protect severely climate-affected communities of the Aral Sea region. Another €5 million will contribute to improving the country’s trade and policy environment.

Today in the margins of the 2019 Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa, the European Commission signed two guarantee agreements with two Member States' development finance institution: the Dutch 'Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V' (FMO) and the Italian 'Cassa Depositi e Prestiti' (CDP). These guarantee agreements are part of the implementation of the EU External Investment Plan, the financial arm of the Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs.

EU DataViz 2019 is an international conference taking place on 12 November 2019 in Luxembourg, organised by the Publications Office of the European Union. It addresses for the first time the specific needs of the community engaged in data visualisation for the public sector in Europe, bringing together experts, practitioners and solution seekers.

The October edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.

On 6th of November 2019, the African Union (AU) - European Union (EU) partnership officially launched the Pan African Network for economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP Network).

A record 45 million people across the 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) will be severely food insecure in the next six months, United Nations food agencies have warned.

The Country Dashboards include now a new section about biophysical indicators on land use.