Publications
Somalia: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2024
04/2024
Within the span of a year, Somalia has gone from averting a famine caused by the longest drought in its history to the worst flooding on record.
Resilience building in Somalia: FAO Programme Review 2024
04/2024
Leveraging on more than a decade of delivering humanitarian response, saving lives, and building resilient and sustainable livelihoods in Somalia, FAO continues to prioritize strengthening the productive sectors and resilient food systems.
Emergency Management Centre: Achievements overview, November 2022–October 2023
02/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Emergency Management Centre is a global centre that supports the management of One Health emergencies such as animal health and plant health.
Hunger Hotspots: FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity
10/2023
FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: November 2023 to April 2024 outlook
Somalia: Project Highlights - OSRO/SOM/205/USA
10/2023
To strengthen food security, nutrition and livelihoods and improve resilience to future shocks.
Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia: Project Highlights - OSRO/GLO/115/GER
10/2023
To mitigate the impact of drought on the food security and livelihoods of affected communities.
Somalia: Project Highlights - OSRO/SOM/204/USA
09/2023
The Government of the United States of America contributed USD 600 000 to the FAO project, "Improving flood and drought risk management in Somalia – SWALIM", which as implemented from 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2023.
Anticipating El Niño: A mitigation, preparedness and response plan
09/2023
FAO’s El Niño Mitigation, Preparedness and Response Plan is an urgent appeal to be implemented in close collaboration with government partners and other humanitarian actors in Somalia.
Somalia: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 6
09/2023
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a sixth-round assessment conducted in June and July 2023 in Somalia.
Somalia: Humanitarian Response Plan 2023
05/2023
Somalia has endured poor rains since 2020, alongside exceptionally high food prices, conflict, disease outbreaks and other hardships.
Project brief: Greening the humanitarian response in displacement settings
04/2023
The scale and protracted nature of displacement today highlights more than ever the need to integrate environmental preparedness and response in humanitarian interventions.
Somalia: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 5
03/2023
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a fifth-round assessment conducted between December 2022 and January 2023 in Somalia.
Somalia: Project Highlights - OSRO/SOM/106/USA
02/2023
The Government of the United States of America contributed USD 22.5 million to the FAO project, "Improved food security and livelihood recovery in Somalia".
Somalia: Project Highlights - OSRO/SOM/104/JPN
02/2023
Maritime security and youth empowerment in Somali fisheries.
Somalia – Strengthening the resilience of rural communities through conflict-sensitive programming: Translating context analysis and conflict-sensitive recommendations into adjustment in project implementation in Lower Shabelle region
12/2022
This learning brief documents learning around promising programme approaches that can support decision-making and resource allocation processes towards durable solutions to food crises.
Monitoring food security in food crisis countries with conflict situations
12/2022
This report provides an update on the acute food insecurity in countries and territories that have the world’s highest burden of people in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance as a result of protracted conflict combined with other factors.
Enhancing nutrition in emergency and resilience agriculture responses to prevent child wasting: FAO's child wasting prevention action plan (2023–2024)
11/2022
As part of the United Nations Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, FAO requires USD 500 million to implement its action plan to prevent child wasting (2023–2024) in the 15 most-affected countries.
Somalia Famine Prevention Scale-up Plan: May 2022 – June 2023
11/2022
FAO’s scaled-up Famine Prevention Plan seeks to reach extremely vulnerable rural communities in areas at high risk of famine to avert further catastrophe and stem the rapidly rising numbers of persons displaced due to the prolonged drought. Deaths due to hunger, malnutrition and related diseases are on the rise.
Contribution from the Government of Sweden to FAO: Annual report 2021
10/2022
In 2021, the Government of Sweden, through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), contributed SEK 94 million (USD 11.08 million) to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) emergency and resilience programme.
Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity (October 2022 to January 2023 Outlook)
09/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 19 countries or situations – called hunger hotspots – during the outlook period from October 2022 to January 2023.