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 [...]

La présente fiche documente la bonne pratique correspondant au Projet d’accroissement de la productivité et de la rentabilité des petites exploitations (ISPP) financé par l’Agence des États-Unis pour le développement international (USAID) et mis en œuvre de septembre 2016 à [...]

Around the world storms, floods and wildfires are intensifying. Air pollution sadly affects the health of tens of millions of people and unpredictable weather causes untold damage to homes and livelihoods too. But while the impacts of climate change are [...]

Within the context of the steady increase of natural hazard-induced disasters and in particular, the rapidly growing climate related risks, the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) is annually marked worldwide on 13 October to reiterate the shared commitments [...]