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BookletSub-Saharan Africa: Strengthening resilience to safeguard agricultural livelihoods 2021
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No results found.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 Africa depends on agriculture for food and income. Smallholder farmers, pastoralists, fishers, and foresters are the key change agents in restoring and improving livelihoods in Africa. By carrying out interventions that are both anticipatory and reactive, tackling the root causes of fragility, the challenges facing food security and nutrition can be addressed. In the effort to reach Zero Hunger by 2030, the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-food systems must be supported for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind. This publication highlights how FAO is working with partners and governments to strengthen the ability of communities in sub-Saharan Africa and food systems to withstand and rapidly recover from crises. The organization is contributing to safeguarding the livelihoods of the most vulnerable agro/pastoral households in sub-Saharan Africa through a range of activities, including capacity building, knowledge sharing, food security and nutrition analyses, and anticipatory actions. The achievements and interventions presented in this publication are not a comprehensive list of all of FAO’s resilience work in the region but rather provide an overview of what is being done to reach our common goal. This is made possible through strong partnerships at all levels. Resource partners’ valuable contributions in particular are critical to these successes. By strengthening collaboration with local, regional, and global partners, the persistent challenges related to food‑crisis contexts are tackled to build back better livelihoods and agri-food systems, to ensure a positive future for the African people. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetWest Africa | Desert locust crisis appeal, May–December 2020
Anticipatory action and rapid response
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No results found.Recent forecasts by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have indicated a risk of locust invasion in West Africa from June 2020. From East Africa, some swarms could reach the eastern part of the Sahel and continue westwards from Chad to Mauritania. Surveillance and control teams will be mobilized across the region with a focus on Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and the Niger, and extended to Senegal. Countries such as Cameroon, the Gambia and Nigeria are also on watch in the event that desert locust spreads to these highly acute food-insecure countries. Since the region could be threatened in the coming months, FAO is strongly encouraging no regret investments in preparedness and anticipatory action to control swarms and safeguard livelihoods, given already high levels of acute food insecurity. Therefore, cost estimates for preparedness, anticipatory action and rapid response have been assessed. FAO’s Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Western Region and FAO’s subregional resilience team for West Africa and the Sahel are already working together with potentially affected countries for the implementation of anticipatory actions, such as training, pre-positioning of resources, initiating surveillance activities and control operations. The countries of the subregion most exposed to the threat of a locust invasion are Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger and Senegal. All of these countries are already facing the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which presents significant further risks to food security. Applying lessons from the 2003–2005 desert locust upsurge in West Africa and from the implementation of resilience programmes in the region, including its Early Warning Early Action approach, FAO is focusing on anticipatory action to avert a full blown food crisis, mainly by: scaling up support to governments to monitor and control the pest; and safeguarding livelihood interventions. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEmergency response and resilience building to improve livelihoods, food security and nutrition in locust affected regions of Namibia 2022
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No results found.Namibia, like many countries in other parts of the world, is experiencing multiple shocks which impact the food and nutrition security of inhabitants especially the most vulnerable (elderly people, women and unemployed youth) segment of society. These shocks include the record climate-induced recurrent droughts in some parts of the country which lasted for more than six consecutive seasons (2013/14 to 2018/19), followed by the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 to 2021), which affected nearly all sectors of the economy and the recent locust outbreaks which ravaged over 1.8 million hectares (including at least 3,000 hectares of cropland). All these shocks have eroded the livelihoods and coping mechanisms of vulnerable households. Through this project, FAO and partners aim to augment the gains realized during the implementation of the Japan-funded and Japan Iinternational Cooperation Agency (JICA) supported project titled “Emergency response and resilience building to improve livelihoods, food security and nutrition in locust affected regions of Namibia”. Specifically, the proposed project aims to strengthen local and national capacities to mitigate these multiple shocks while contributing to scaling out resilient livelihoods with special focus on youth and women-headed households.
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