The magnitude and severity of food crises worsened in 2020 as protracted conflict, the economic fallout of COVID-19 and weather extremes exacerbated pre-existing fragilities. Forecasts point to a grim outlook for 2021, with the threat of Famine persisting in some [...]

Wednesday 5 May14:30 - 16:30 CESTRegister here On 5 May 2021, the Global Network against Food Crises will hold a high-level virtual event to release the latest figures on how many people are facing acute hunger and malnutrition in crisis prone countries, in [...]

Jeudi 29 avril8:30 am - 9:30 am ESTInscrivez-vous ici Ce webinaire partagera les avancées innovantes de deux projets axés sur les systèmes d’alerte précoce, le changement climatique, la résilience et la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique sub-saharienne. Les deux projets, l'un en [...]

The FAO-WFP Hunger Hotspots report is a forward-looking, early warning analysis of countries and situations, called hotspots, where acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate over the coming months. These hotspots are identified through a consensus-based analysis of key drivers [...]

On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms [...]