In 2016-17, FAO rolled out the EWEA pilot programme in Paraguay, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Madagascar, the Pacific Islands, Sudan and Mongolia some of the countries considered high-risk for natural disasters and food insecurity. The EWEA programme supports FAO member countries [...]

From March 2014 to March 2015, households in two areas of Ethiopia chosen as sites of the PRIME project’s impact evaluation, Borena and Jijiga, experienced unusually severe drought. Using baseline data (December 2013) and Recurrent Monitoring Survey data (collected monthly [...]

This webinar was organised with support from the European Union. Anticipatory Action (AA) webinar series: Reducing disaster risk vulnerability in Bangladesh: Partner perspectives 6 December 2017 – 10.00 - 11.30 CET Share your feedback on the event Speakers: Damien Joud, Food Security Cluster Coordinator, Food Security Cluster Thorsten Klose-Zuber, [...]

  Incorporating drones into resilience efforts can help minimize impacts of a disaster and enhance a community's ability to respond to events.  e-Agriculture is organizing a learning event on the use of drones in agriculture and rural development from 16 to [...]

The Somalia Water and Land Information Management project (SWALIM) is one of the few UN development programmes to have information management as its primary mission, using technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and remote sensing mapping and data collection with mobile [...]