Acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 20 countries or situations – hunger hotspots – in the next months. Organized violence or conflict remain the primary drivers, followed by weather extremes and climate variability. The COVID-19 pandemic continues [...]

A joint initiative between KORE and the Food and Nutrition Division from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with the support of the European Union. The burden of malnutrition in all its forms remains a challenge. Healthy diets [...]

Despite ongoing interventions, food insecurity in Madagascar’s Grand South and South East remains high, with 1.64 million people classified in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or Emergency (IPC Phase 4), corresponding to 37% of the population analysed. The persisting food and [...]

In 2019 and 2020 alone, sub-Saharan Africa was hit by a once-in-a-century desert locust upsurge and the COVID-19 pandemic while simultaneously facing conflict, droughts, and floods among other shocks and stressors. More than 60 percent of the population in sub-Saharan [...]

  THEME: Meeting the challenges of future crises: Protecting lives and livelihoods with anticipatory action The 9th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action will be hosted by the Anticipation Hub and co-organized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN [...]