FAO report highlights risks posed by locusts in Africa amid stronger output trends in the Near East and Asia.
The February edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.
The East and Horn of Africa region is currently facing one of the worst infestations of desert locusts - whose destructive impact is likely to cause large-scale crop damage and worsen food insecurity in countries already affected by recurrent drought, conflict and high food prices. Based on the current and projected analyses by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), more than 10 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan, who are already facing severe food insecurity in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse, are located in areas currently affected by the desert locust infestations. A further 3.24 million severely food insecure people in Uganda and South Sudan, are also under threat, bringing the total number of the population at risk to over 13 million.
The January edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.
The European Commission is mobilising a humanitarian aid package of €22.8 million to help address emergency food needs and support vulnerable people in Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The funding comes as large parts of southern Africa are currently in the grip of their harshest drought in decades.
The INFORM Global Crisis Severity Index (GCSI) for November 2019 is now available.
The November edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.
The October edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.
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.
This year IMPEL’s Water and Land Conference will focus on adaption measures to deal extreme events, droughts and floods due to changes in our climate.
The September edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment.
A spell of drought, following 2 poor rain seasons in a row, has put almost 13 million people in need of emergency food assistance across the Horn of Africa.
Drought conditions partially easing in East Africa. Maize price currently stable in Southern Africa. Above-average winter cereal harvests in North Africa and the Middle East.
