The Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) report on food security and agriculture is produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides a quarterly forward-looking analysis of major disaster risks to food security and agriculture, [...]

Highlights: African Swine Fever continues to spread within East and Southeast Asia, leading to the death and the culling of millions of pigs. The disease poses a serious threat to the livelihood and food security of large numbers of people relying on [...]

At request of the Government, a joint FAO-WFP rapid Food Security Assessment Mission (rFSA) visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from 29 March to 12 April 2019. The overall objective of the joint FAO-WFP Mission was to conduct an independent [...]

In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, below-average rains, coupled with high temperatures from mid-July until mid-August, resulted in moisture stress during critical crop development stages in localized areas of the main crop producing provinces, including South and North Hwanghae, [...]

This report assesses the food supply and demand situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for the 2017/18 marketing year (November/October). It presents the 2017/18 aggregate crop production, which includes the 2017 main season, completed by October 2017, and [...]