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 [...]

Highlights Alarming number of people facing severe acute food insecurity in southern regions of Madagascar. Low harvests and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic underpin the current conditions. Immediate scaling up and extension of humanitarian response required, including assistance to farming households prior [...]

An FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission (CFSAM) visited all main food producing areas in Timor-Leste from 27 April to 9 May 2021 to estimate the 2021 crop production and the import requirements during the 2021/22 marketing year (April/March). The [...]

Highlights The production of the 2020 main season crops benefitted from expanded planting, which mostly offset yield losses due to floods and storms in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Production prospects for the 2020/21 minor early season winter/spring crops, for harvest [...]

Against the background of fast expanding trade and a surge in food import bills, which has come to characterise much of the developments shaping global food markets in 2020/21, early forecasts for 2021/22 point to resilient food trade and a [...]