Executive summary The Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) enables the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to take rapid and effective action in...
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Executive summary The Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) enables the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to take rapid and effective action in...
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Heavy rainfall triggers flooding in parts of Niger, Nigeria, and Sudan Africa Weather Hazards A lack of rainfall since May has resulted in moderate to large thirty-day moisture deficits, leading to...
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Dryness in South Sudan deteriorates to drought as the rainy season ends in the Horn of Africa Africa Weather Hazards Insufficient rainfall since early May has strengthened abnormal dryness in central...
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Poor rainfall continues to maintain drought and abnormal dryness in parts of East Africa Poor rainfall since the start of the March-May season caused droughts across much of East Africa. Areas in...
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REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS AFRICA Adverse weather conditions in North Africa and Southern Africa have curtailed 2022 cereal production prospects. In East Africa and West Africa, where the 2021 crops were...
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Overview: In East Africa, planting is underway for Belg crops in Ethiopia with concerns due to dry conditions and ongoing conflict in the north. In Kenya, harvest has finalized for Short Rains crops...
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Overview: In East Africa, harvesting of main season cereals finalized in the north under mixed conditions due to ongoing conflict in South Sudan and northern Ethiopia, flooding in South Sudan, and...
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Overview: In East Africa, harvesting of main season cereals is underway in the north under mixed conditions. In the south, there is ongoing concern for second season cereals due to a third...
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Overview: In East Africa, harvesting of main season cereals is underway in the north with mixed conditions due to conflict impacts in parts of Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Yemen and flooding in South...
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Overview: In East Africa, harvesting of main/Meher season cereals is underway in the north with generally favourable conditions except in areas impacted by ongoing conflict, socio-economic...
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Consistent heavy rainfall maintains flooding in West and East Africa Locust swarms continue to increase in northeast Ethiopia and southern Djibouti. Abnormal dryness persists over southwestern...
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Continued rainfall maintains high risk flooding across West and East Africa Locust swarms continue to increase in northeast Ethiopia and southern Djibouti. Abnormal dryness persists over southwestern...
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Parts of West and East Africa remain dry despite increased rainfall, while riverine flooding is expected in Ethiopia and Sudan Immature locust swarms are increasing in northwest Somalia, Ethiopia and...
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Continued below-average rainfall maintains abnormal dryness in East and West Africa Africa Weather Hazards Locust swarms and hopper bands are declining in the Horn of Africa but are still likely to...
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The poorest continue bearing the burden of global challenges: How can we transform agri-food systems so that no one is left behind? Statement of the Global Network against Food Crises on the release...
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Introduction The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2021) highlights the remarkably high severity and numbers of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent in 55...
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Executive Summary Over the last two decades, conflicts and crises have increasingly threatened global peace and stability, as well as sustainable development. Violent conflict has become more...
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COUNTRIES REQUIRING EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE FOR FOOD FAO assesses that globally 45 countries, 34 of which in Africa, continue to be in need of external assistance for food. The impact of the COVID-19...
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Highlights WFP estimates that 271.8 million people in countries where it operates are acutely food insecure or directly at risk of becoming so due to the aggravating effect of the COVID-19 crisis. At...
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Highlights A toxic mix of conflict, economic decline, climate extremes and the socio-economic fallout from the Coronavirus pandemic are driving people into a deepening phase of extreme food...