With the aim of localising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Expo 2020 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Programme, ‘Small Steps, Big Leaps’, will spotlight simple but effective initiatives that can be adapted, replicated or scaled for enhanced global impact. The international [...]

Please join FAO and Tufts University for the technical series on the conceptual framework for addressing acute malnutrition in Africa’s drylands in October and November 2020 and the Round Table in December 2020. Events will be in English and French. Childhood [...]

The issue paper contributes to inter-agency reflections on what the Peace component of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN) might and can look like, with an emphasis on the possible engagement pathways along a peace spectrum within humanitarian action. This paper outlines [...]

FAO's Environmental and Social Standards (2015) ensure that FAO projects and programmes conform to sustainability criteria and mitigate potential adverse impacts to achieve expected outcomes. A COVID-19 outbreak in countries already affected by existing shocks, including political instability, conflict and [...]

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2020 is the result of a joint, consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity situations around the world by 16 partner organizations. The data and the analyses in this report were prepared before the [...]