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Jul 1st, 2020
GIEWS Crop Prospects and Food Situation - No 2 on July 2020
FAO assesses that globally 44 countries, of which 34 are in Africa, continue to be in need of external assistance for food. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are causing wide‑ranging and severe negative impacts on food security, particularly through the loss of income. Conflicts and weather shocks remain critical factors that underpin the current high levels of severe food insecurity.
Jun 1st, 2020
GIEWS Food Outlook Report, June 2020
Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while most markets are braced for a major global economic downturn, the agri-food sector is likely to display more resilience to the crisis than other sectors.
May 8th, 2020
Report: Webinar on Near-Real-Time Monitoring of Food Crisis Risk Factors: State of Knowledge and Future Prospects
This webinar focused on benchmarking progress in near-real-time monitoring by highlighting existing
efforts and discussing future prospects of this area of work. Arif Husain (WFP), Laura Glaeser (FEWS
NET), and Mario Zappacosta (FAO Global Information and Early Warning System – GIEWS) shared their
respective institutions’ work on near-real-time monitoring. Daniel Maxwell (Tufts University), Chris
Barrett (Cornell University), Kathy Baylis (University of Illinois), and David Laborde (IFPRI) provided a
research perspective, sharing some recent efforts on using near-real-time monitoring to improve the
ability to assess and predict food crisis risk. The webinar clarified the role of near real-time monitoring in
existing early warning systems, highlighted several existing monitoring platforms and tools, and shared
some of the latest research in improving the use of real-time monitoring for food crisis assessment and
prediction.
efforts and discussing future prospects of this area of work. Arif Husain (WFP), Laura Glaeser (FEWS
NET), and Mario Zappacosta (FAO Global Information and Early Warning System – GIEWS) shared their
respective institutions’ work on near-real-time monitoring. Daniel Maxwell (Tufts University), Chris
Barrett (Cornell University), Kathy Baylis (University of Illinois), and David Laborde (IFPRI) provided a
research perspective, sharing some recent efforts on using near-real-time monitoring to improve the
ability to assess and predict food crisis risk. The webinar clarified the role of near real-time monitoring in
existing early warning systems, highlighted several existing monitoring platforms and tools, and shared
some of the latest research in improving the use of real-time monitoring for food crisis assessment and
prediction.
Apr 21st, 2020
Global Report on Food Crises 2020
At 135 million, the number of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) in 2019 was the highest in the four years of the GRFC’s existence.
Mar 16th, 2020
Climate Change Best Practices
This best practice document provides some specific recommendations for best practices for climate change adaptation and mitigation for agriculture in developing countries, based on recent research.
Mar 1st, 2020
GIEW Crop Prospects and Food Situation - No 1 on March 2020
FAO assesses that globally 44 countries, of which 34 are in Africa, continue to be in need of external assistance for food. Agricultural droughts have aggravated food insecurity conditions, due to reduced harvests that also caused price hikes. Conflict driven crises continued to be the primary cause of the high levels of severe food insecurity.
Feb 26th, 2020
Report on Rwanda National Policy Dialogue: Building Productive Capacities for Rwanda’s Agricultural Transformation, Rural Development, and Food Security
The Food Security Portal, in partnership with the Economic Policy Research Network Rwanda (EPRN), held a one-day national policy dialogue on building Rwanda's productive capacities. The event was a follow-on to the 6th EPRN Annual Economic Research Conference and emphasized engaging up-and-coming members of the policy and research communities, including policy analysts from MINAGRI, lecturers from the University of Rwanda, members of the EPRN network, students, and youth. This is a summary report of that event.
Jan 1st, 2020
Yemen: Acute Malnutrition January - July 2020 and Projection for August - December 2020
Over half a million cases of children aged 0 to 59 months, and more than a quarter of a million cases of pregnant and lactating women, are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition during the course of 2020. Out of the 19 zones included in the IPC Acute Malnutrition (IPC AMN) analysis, two zones are classified in Critical (IPC AMN Phase 4), eight in Serious (IPC AMN Phase 3) and the remaining zones in Alert (IPC AMN Phase 2) during the current period of January July 2020. The situation is expected to deteriorate further during the projection period of August – December 2020. A total of seven zones will likely move into a higher Phase, with 15 of the 19 zones in IPC AMN Phase 3 or IPC AMN Phase 4.
Nov 1st, 2019
GIEWS Food Outlook Report, November 2019
From a global perspective, food commodity markets in 2019/20 should continue to be generally well supplied, with international prices remaining below their recent peaks. However, a fast changing trade environment along with the outbreaks of important animal and plant diseases could pose challenges for global market stability.
Oct 16th, 2019
Global Report on Food Crises 2019
More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) in 2018.