02/04/2019
More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above). The worst food crises in 2018 were, in order of severity, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [...]
15/03/2019
An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) visited South Sudan from 3 to 13 December 2018 to estimate the cereal production during 2018 and assess the overall food security situation in the country. The CFSAM reviewed the findings [...]
January - March 2019
17/01/2019
The Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) report on food security and agriculture is developed 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, [...]
A regional conference on recent research and policy options - 21-23 May 2019, Moroto, Uganda
20/12/2018
The Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU) in Uganda is organizing a regional conference to take stock of recent research in Karamoja, northwest Kenya, and neighbouring areas of South Sudan and Ethiopia, and to draw out lessons for policy and programming. [...]
Fuel shortages and high prices of agricultural inputs affecting planting of 2018 crops
11/09/2018
Highlights:
Fuel shortages are reported in several areas in the country, triggering sharp price increases in the parallel market.
Prices of most agricultural inputs surged in the last 12 months to more than twice their year-earlier levels.
Availability and access constraints to fuel [...]