From March 2014 to March 2015, households in two areas of Ethiopia chosen as sites of the PRIME project’s impact evaluation, Borena and Jijiga, experienced unusually severe drought. Using baseline data (December 2013) and Recurrent Monitoring Survey data (collected monthly [...]

Date: Wednesday 14 February 2018 Time: 9.00-10.30 EST (UTC/GMT -5) FAO’s Strategic Programme 2 (SP2) identified the Global Farmer Field School Platform as one of its global knowledge products over the 2018-19 biennium.  The seminar on February 14th 2018 launching the global FFS platform, [...]

As part of USAID's commitment to working with communities to strengthen their resilience, USAID has elevated resilience to an objective in the Global Food Security Strategy, prioritizing approaches that strengthen households' and communities' absorptive, adaptive, and transformative resilience capacities. To [...]

Gender inequalities generate risks for women and girls on a daily basis. In Chad, more than 35% of women have been victims of physical, psychological and/or sexual violence at the hands of their partners, while adolescent girls are highly vulnerable to [...]

The joint Microlinks and Agrilinks webinar explores how investing in resilience will result in reduced humanitarian assistance needs and avoided losses, comparing a range of investment and response scenarios in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia.  When: Thursday 25 January 2018, 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM Time [...]