Food Chain Crisis Management Framework
 

FCC Intelligence and Coordination

The Food Chain Crisis – Intelligence and Coordination Unit (FCC-ICU) ensures coordination within the various components of the FCC. It oversees risk analysis and intelligence, and long-term threat forecasting within the framework. The FCC-ICU is based in the office of the Assistant Director-General of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department.

Some of the coordination activities of the FCC-ICU include:

  • assembling internal and external knowledge and advice for advancing substantive and procedural coordination and collaboration among the constituents of the FCC
  • designing, negotiating and undertaking steps for the strengthening of inter departmental cooperation in profiling and promoting FAO’s food chain crises management
  • supporting advocacy for prevention and early warning and enhancing opportunities of linkages, partnerships and complementarities
  • contributing to the design of risk communication strategies along the food chain

The FCC-ICU also acts as the Secretariat of the FCC coordination mechanisms.