The 18 hotspots comprise 22 countries and territories that will see worsening food insecurity between November and April. Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan and Palestine are of highest concern.
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The 18 hotspots comprise 22 countries and territories that will see worsening food insecurity between November and April. Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan and Palestine are of highest concern.
A combination of anticipated climate events between October and November brings risks and opportunities for Somalia’s rural communities who have already endured years of historic drought.
FAO and the Hirshabelle State Government call for immediate support as the worst flooding in thirty years displaces communities and endangers food security in the region.
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Without a massively scaled up humanitarian response that has at its core time-sensitive and life-saving agricultural assistance, the situation will likely worsen in many countries in the coming months.
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Conflict, economic shocks – including due to COVID-19, extreme weather – pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020, says coalition of UN, EU, NGOs and government agencies.
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At no other point in history have agri-food systems faced more hazards and with such frequency, intensity, and complexity as during the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic, states new report.
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FAO is seeking $40 million to increase control activities in the worst-hit countries, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the Sudan and Yemen, where more than 35 million people are acutely food insecure.
More than 700 houses were destroyed, several boats and fishing gear damaged, and large numbers of livestock lost. This has led to severe loss of livelihood for most families.
Alongside efforts to control the locusts, FAO is implementing a programme to safeguard productive assets and livelihoods of the affected population in Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Somalia, SNNP and Tigray.
Djibouti + 6 more
The region faces an unprecedented threat to food security caused by severe floods, COVID-19 and desert locusts. Below-average rains later this year could further threaten food security.
Economic shocks, conflict, floods, desert locusts and now COVID-19 are creating a perfect storm that could reverse hard-earned gains, warns the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
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There is a real concern about the growing risk of famine, potentially even several famines at once. Before the pandemic hit, 27 million people were in “emergency” levels of acute food insecurity.
The Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund has contributed $9.5 million to an FAO-led project that aims to boost the resilience of farmers affected by conflict and natural disasters.
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If urgent humanitarian action is not taken, the number of food-insecure people will likely rise in the coming months, according to the Regional Interagency Standing Committee Africa.
The number of food-insecure people in Zimbabwe is projected to rise to 5.5 million people between January and March 2020, which would be the highest number on record.
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Conflicts are the primary cause of high levels of food insecurity, while adverse weather conditions - particularly rainfall shortages in Africa - acutely affect food availability and access for millions.
An initial 15,000 vulnerable households – or about 75,000 people – will receive agricultural kits and early-maturing maize and bean seeds that will be ready to harvest after just 90 days.
Over the next three months, FAO aims to reach 50,000 farmers with vegetable seeds, fertilizers and small hand tools. A further 20,000 fishermen and women will receive fishing equipment kits.
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Civil conflicts and displacement remain the key drivers of food insecurity in East Africa and the Near East, whereas dry-weather conditions reduced cereal outputs in Southern Africa, says FAO.
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A new FAO report sounds the alarm on some of the world's most severely underfunded crises, which require an urgent humanitarian response and emergency agricultural assistance