FAO emergencies and resilience

Analysis and evidence

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Timely and accurate agriculture-related food security and risk analysis data is fundamental to support and trigger FAO’s evidence-based emergency and resilience programming. 

This entails:

  • Understanding vulnerability and food insecurity
  • Risk monitoring, triggers and early warning systems
  • Anticipating shocks and anticipatory action plans
  • Emergency needs assessments and response analysis
  • Post-disaster needs assessments and recovery analysis  

Key agriculture-related food security and risk analysis tools include:

News
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News
Overcoming impacts of desert locusts, drought and displacement through climate-smart agriculture practices in Somaliland
06/01/2022

FAO’s desert locust response programme is supporting rural farming households to address acute food insecurity in rural areas while contributing to...

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FAO and USAID support the Lao People's Democratic Republic to tackle emerging zoonotic diseases
10/11/2021

The four-year project aims to help the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's Department of Livestock and Fisheries (DLF) in prevention.

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FAO supports ECOWAS to mobilize animal health networks across West Africa
22/10/2021

The annual ECOWAS Regional Animal Health Network meeting brings together scientists and policy-makers to collaborate on effective animal health interventions

Publications
Publications
West Bank: DIEM – Data in Emergencies brief on the food security and livelihoods of agricultural households, October 2025
12/2025

This emergency agriculture support brief presents the results of the latest Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) round conducted in the...

Publications
Nigeria: DIEM-Impact rapid analysis of the impact of flooding on agriculture, October 2025
12/2025

The main rainy season in Nigeria takes place from May to October in the north, and from February to November in the south. Flooding has become a recurrent...

Publications
Sudan – Al Jazirah: DIEM-Monitoring emergency agriculture support brief, October 2025
12/2025

This emergency agriculture support brief presents the results of the latest Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) round conducted in Al Jazirah...

 
 
Multimedia
Video
The added value of the Data in Emergencies information system
08/07/2022

In recognition of the need to better understand the impact of shocks on agricultural livelihoods in food crisis contexts, the Food and Agriculture Organization...

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Data in Emergencies information system introductory video
08/07/2022

In recognition of the need to better understand the impact of shocks on agricultural livelihoods in food crisis contexts, the Food and Agriculture Organization...