This webinar was organised with support from the European Union. Disaster risk reduction and management in agriculture webinar series: Building Resilience to Natural Hazards and Climate-related Disasters in the Caribbean  26 June 2018 – 15.00 - 16.30 CEST Share your feedback on the event Speakers:  Daniele Barelli, Subregional [...]

FAO assesses that globally 39 countries are in need of external assistance for food. Persisting conflicts continue to be the dominant factor driving the high levels of severe food insecurity. Weather shocks have also adversely impacted food availability and access.

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most contagious transboundary animal diseases (TADs). Livestock movements and trade play a key role in the spread of the disease. FMD is still widespread throughout the world. It still occurs in [...]

In 2017, almost 124 million people across 51 countries and territories faced Crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse (IPC Phase 3 and above or equivalent) and required urgent humanitarian action. In 2016 the population in need of urgent [...]

Over one year of severe dry weather conditions affected forage and water availability in most pastoral and agro-pastoral areas, causing massive livestock deaths in Somalia. Weather forecasts point to below-average precipitations during the April-June “gu” season and a full recovery [...]