Overview   Food security

How will people in urban areas access food if open-air markets are banned? What will happen?

CGIAR will make available its latest research and analysis on COVID-19 to support authorities and the public in making informed decisions during the current crisis.

ACP-EU-FAO initiative to invest in value chains that stimulate inclusive growth, bolster food security and minimize impacts on the marine environment.

As the Covid-19 outbreak disrupts travel and meetings around the world, the RPCA held this year’s restricted meeting as a videoconference in order to share crucial information on the food and nutrition situation in the region. More than 200 participants connected from various sites in Abuja, Accra, Bamako, Niamey, Ouagadougou, Roma, Paris and many other places. The videoconference focused on the agricultural, food and nutrition situation, validation of the Cadre harmonisé results as well as implementation of national response plans. Members also took stock of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the food and nutrition situation in the region.

More than 4.3 million people in Zimbabwe are acutely food insecure or classified in IPC Crisis or Emergency phases.

With just ten years to go before the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDG 2030) is to be fulfilled, reducing food loss and waste is critical to achieving this agenda.

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

The European Union provides €30 million in humanitarian funding for vulnerable people in Sudan to help address needs in the country.

Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, and Jutta Urpilainen, Commissioner for International Partnerships, visited Burkina Faso in light of the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and security crisis in the country.

The European Commission has announced today €10 million more to respond to one of the worst Desert Locust outbreak in decades in East Africa. The outbreak could have devastating consequences on food security in an already vulnerable region where 27.5 million people suffer from severe food insecurity and at least 35 million more are at risk.

Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen attended the G5 Sahel Summit in Mauritania today, highlighting the EU’s sustained commitment to the stabilisation and recovery of the region.

In the analysis period of January 2020, 5.29 million people, or 45.2% South Sudan's population, are estimated to have faced Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse acute food insecurity, of which 1.11 million people faced Emergency (IPC Phase 4) acute food insecurity. About 40,000 people were classified in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) in the counties of Akobo, Duk and Ayod in Jonglei State. Compared with the same time last year, the January 2020 levels of food insecurity reflect a 9% reduction in the proportion of population facing Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse acute food insecurity. Latest finding also indicate that about 1.3 million children under five years as well as 352,000 pregnant or lactating women are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2020. The high morbidity rate is attributed to flooding that has worsened the spread of malaria and unsafe drinking water.

Le Ministre de l'Agro-Industrie et de la Sécurité alimentaire et l'Ambassadeur de l'Union européenne ont signé un nouveau contrat de subvention d'un montant de 100 million de roupies pour la l’agriculture et le changement climatique. Cet appui de l'Union européenne servira à renforcer les capacités du FAREI en matière de recherche pour identifier des produits agricoles mieux adaptés au changement et réduire l'utilisation des pesticides par les agriculteurs.

Since then, the institute and its partners have demonstrated how agricultural innovations can be shared and scaled up to improve food security and livelihoods across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Yet, as CTA enters the final year of its mandate, food systems and agriculture are once again...

Global trends in population growth and dietary changes show that the overall demand for food will continue to increase, and there are risks of natural resource degradation and scarcity due to increased competition and climate change.

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 worst desert locust outbreak in decades threatens food security across East Africa.

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

Near real-time monitoring of food security situation in more than 90 countries set to inform better decisions.

Agriculture Ministers decide in GFFA final communiqué to strengthen rule-based free trade.