FAO’s Early Warning-Early Action programme mitigates the impacts of disasters
02/03/2018
In 2016-17, FAO rolled out the EWEA pilot programme in Paraguay, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Madagascar, the Pacific Islands, Sudan and Mongolia some of the countries considered high-risk for natural disasters and food insecurity. The EWEA programme supports FAO member countries [...]
22/02/2018
Research and webinar lead by Tufts University's Feinstein International Center and sponsored by USAID Center for Resilience.
Date: Thursday 22 February 2018
Time: 9.00-10.30 EST (UTC/GMT -5)
Despite global improvements in malnutrition and under-five mortality child Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) continues to be an [...]
Uncovering the Pathways to Resilience
19/02/2018
From March 2014 to March 2015, households in two areas of Ethiopia chosen as sites of the PRIME project’s impact evaluation, Borena and Jijiga, experienced unusually severe drought. Using baseline data (December 2013) and Recurrent Monitoring Survey data (collected monthly [...]
14/02/2018
Date: Wednesday 14 February 2018
Time: 9.00-10.30 EST (UTC/GMT -5)
FAO’s Strategic Programme 2 (SP2) identified the Global Farmer Field School Platform as one of its global knowledge products over the 2018-19 biennium.
The seminar on February 14th 2018 launching the global FFS platform, [...]
USAID Center for Resilience
01/02/2018
As part of USAID's commitment to working with communities to strengthen their resilience, USAID has elevated resilience to an objective in the Global Food Security Strategy, prioritizing approaches that strengthen households' and communities' absorptive, adaptive, and transformative resilience capacities. To [...]