search results for AA project highlights
Colombia: Project Highlights - OSRO/COL/135/GER
14/04/2025
Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities - Anticipatory Action Window, contributed USD 1 million to FAO's project entitled "Anticipatory actions for the protection of agricultural livelihoods exposed to the impact of the El Niño phenomenon in Colombia".
Subregional West Africa: Project Highlights - OSRO/SFW/007/GER
19/03/2025
The Federal Government of Germany, contributed USD 3 million, through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action window, to FAO's project entitled ''Anticipatory action for flood risk in the Sahel''.
Somalia: Project Highlights - UTF/SOM/067/SOM
04/03/2025
The Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia and the World Bank contributed USD 13 177 000 to the FAO project , "Anticipatory action and early response support to drought-affected communities in Somaliland, Puntland, Galmudug and Southwest State", which was implemented from 1 July 2022 to 20 May 2024.
Ecuador: Project Highlights - OSRO/ECU/111/GER
15/01/2025
The El Niño phenomenon is a natural climatic event characterized by the anomalous warming of waters of the intertropical Pacific Ocean, causing changes in climate patterns around the world.
Mozambique: Project Highlights -OSRO/MOZ/135/GER
07/10/2024
The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany contributed USD 500 000 to the FAO project, "Anticipating the impacts of El Niño-induced drought to protect smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in Mozambique", which was implemented from 1 September 2023 to 31 March 2024.
Tajikistan: Project Highlights – OSRO/TAJ/200/GER
25/07/2024
The Government of Germany contributed USD 132 104 to enhance anticipatory emergency response capacity for improved food security of populations living in locust infested areas of Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Global: Project Highlights – OSRO/GLO/1196/GER
08/07/2024
The German Federal Foreign Office contributed EUR 4.5 million (USD 4 516 472) to safeguard the agricultural livelihoods and food security of the most vulnerable households ahead of shocks and reduce humanitarian needs by systematically linking risk analysis to Anticipatory Action in high-risk countries.
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua: Project Highlights – OSRO/SLM/011/CAN
18/06/2024
The Government of Canada through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action Window contributed USD 1 million to improve the food security, nutrition and resilience to climate shocks by implementing Anticipatory Actions ahead of El Niño-induced drought in the Dry Corridor of Central America.
Somalia: Project Highlights – OSRO/SOM/020/CAN
18/06/2024
The Government of Canada through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action Window contributed USD 1 222 000 to strengthen the capacity of communities and local governance structures in Somalia, and mitigate the impact of El Niño-related floods on the most vulnerable communities.
Global: Project Highlights - OSRO/GLO/203/GER
13/12/2023
FAO's project entitled "Scaling up Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) for agriculture and food security", funded by Germany aimed to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable people in high risk countries, prevent food crises, and reduce humanitarian needs.
Iraq: Protecting Iraqi farmers by anticipating drought and water shortages
01/06/2023
In Iraq, years of conflict and instability have damaged vital agricultural infrastructure, leaving already vulnerable people at further risk of increased food insecurity. It is also one of the most vulnerable Middle Eastern countries to climate change.
Madagascar: Anticipatory Action to avert a Malagasy migratory locust upsurge
01/08/2022
Madagascar is highly prone to natural hazards, and in the Grand Sud region, three years of consecutive severe drought have wiped out harvests and hampered people’s access to food.
Afghanistan: Minimizing secondary impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural livelihoods of food insecure households through Anticipatory Action
01/08/2022
In early 2020, a scenario analysis on the expected secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan pointed to a potential disruption of agricultural livelihoods and a further deterioration in food security.
Syrian Arab Republic: Protecting wheat farmers by anticipating La Niña-induced drought in crisis-affected areas
01/08/2022
The Syrian Arab Republic is affected by compounding risk factors such as conflict, economic crises and natural hazards, which have severe impacts on food security. In September 2021, forecasts indicated below-average winter rains, likely to again affect wheat production, livelihoods and food security.
Myanmar: Mitigating a potential food crisis in Rakhine State and Ayeyarwady Region through Anticipatory Action
01/08/2022
The political crisis in Myanmar started on 1 February 2021, and by May 2021, political tensions and conflict had led to more than 114 000 people moving across the country, with many returning to their rural townships and villages for safety.