This document has been prepared within the framework of the Preparedness and Resilience Working Group (PRWG) of the global food Security Cluster (gFSC) as part of its commitment to “Improve awareness-raising and ‘language building’ to increase common understanding of preparedness and resilience”.  With the [...]

Severe dryness during the whole month of October in the main cereal-producing areas negatively impacted the establishment and development of “deyr” crops, expected to be harvested in January 2018. The dismal performance of the rainy season has exacerbated water and pasture [...]

  The Resilience Evidence Forum (REF) was organized by USAID's Center for Resilience and TOPS/REAL. It was held in Washington D.C. on October 2-3, 2017 attended by over 150 participants including USAID headquarters and field-based staff, implementing partners, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), [...]

FAO estimates that 37 countries are in need of external assistance for food in the world. Persisting conflicts have continued to acutely affect agricultural production and food security conditions. Weather shocks, including floods, hurricanes and droughts, have compounded the fragile [...]

This document summarizes the online discussion Beyond “temporal” resilience: results that withstand the test of time, which was held on the FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) from 1 to 24 March 2017. The discussion was facilitated [...]