The GIEWS Updates are issued by FAO’s Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) from mid-2004. The updates focus on developing anomalous conditions aimed at providing early warnings, as well as latest and more elaborate information than other GIEWS regular reports on the food security situation of countries, at both national and sub-national levels.

The FAO/GIEWS Country Cereal Balance System (CCBS) is a database of annual supply and utilization balances for main cereals, covering all countries of the world. It has been maintained by FAO/GIEWS since 1980 and is updated on a continual basis. This statistical report, which is a subset of CCBS data, presents the current-year cereal supply and demand balances for all sub-Saharan African countries, highlighting cereal import and food aid requirements...

La mission conjointe FAO/PAM/CILSS/FEWS NET a visité le pays du 18 octobre au 6 novembre 2010. Durant la première semaine, les experts et représentants de la FAO, du PAM, du CILSS-AGRHYMET et de FEWS NET en collaboration avec les responsables des ministères, ont adopté le programme de travail de la mission et ont tenu des séances de travail avec les services nationaux intervenant dans le suivi de la campagne agricole,...

An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) visited Southern Sudan from 18 October to 12 November 2010 to estimate cereal production and assess the overall food-security situation. The Mission included representatives from the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS), the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MoAF), the Southern Sudan Relief and rehabilitation Commission (SSRRC), the Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Statistics and Evaluation (SSCCSE) FEWS/NET, EC/JRC, FAO and WFP. The...

Une mission FAO/PAM composée de cadres techniques du Ministère de l’agriculture, ainsi que des consultants (PAM/FAO) a été conduite à Madagascar du 28 juin au 31 juillet 2010, avec pour objet l’évaluation des récoltes et de la sécurité alimentaire dans le pays pour la campagne agricole 2009/10. Dans cette optique, la mission devait identifier et évaluer les facteurs influant sur la production agricole tels que la pluviométrie, les maladies et...

FAO’s latest estimate of the world cereal production in 2010 stands at 2 229 million tonnes, slightly more than the previous forecast in November but still 1.4 percent down from the previous year. Most of the decline is among the major exporting countries while in the Low-Income Food-Deficit countries (LIFDC), cereal output is forecast to increase by 2.5 percent, marking a third consecutive year of sustained growth. The largest increase...

The Global food price monitor was issued by GIEWS from 2010 until the end of 2014, reporting on food price developments at world, regional and country level with focus on developing countries. From January 2015 this report was replaced by the Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Bulletin.

Following a request from the Kyrgyz Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) to assess the impact on agriculture and food security of the late start of the spring 2010 season and social unrest in April and June, and to provide technical assistance in rapid crop assessment methodologies, an FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission was conducted in Kyrgyzstan in July and August 2010. The Mission was to support a crop cutting...