Loyaa Village sits on a sandy plain at the edge of rain-starved Turkana County, in northeastern Kenya—part of the Greater Karamoja Cluster, which also includes the borders of Uganda, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. It is the last village before the neighboring [...]

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), and provides a quarterly forward-looking analysis of major disaster risks to food security and agriculture, including their likelihood and [...]

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2020 is the result of a joint, consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity situations around the world by 16 partner organizations. The data and the analyses in this report were prepared before the [...]

Main findings The assessment revealed the following key findings: Both host and refugee households rely almost entirely on woodfuel to meet their energy needs. Firewood is dominant at Kyangwali settlement, where it is the primary fuel for 75.5 percent of households, while [...]

The East and Horn of Africa region is currently facing one of the worst infestations of desert locusts - whose destructive impact is likely to cause large-scale crop damage and worsen food insecurity in countries already affected by recurrent drought, [...]