IMPORTANT: This report is based on information gathered in the Lao  People’s Democratic Republic from 16 November to 5 December 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and thus the assessment does not take into consideration the impacts of the [...]

Measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 include strong restrictions of movement which dramatically change daily lives and impact agricultural livelihoods. These measures are particularly difficult for the rural poorest and most vulnerable, who tend to hold jobs and occupations [...]

A webinar organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Health Organization (WHO) 7 April 202006:00 Pacific Time (US and Canada)08:00 Panama09:00 New York14:00 London15:00 Geneva20:00 Bangkok22:00 Korea Register here Speakers Dr. Peter Williams, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Retd. Dr. [...]

The main farming systems in Karamoja Cluster incorporate mixed farming; agro-pastoral farming; highland perennial farming; highland mixed farming and pastoral farming; fish-based farming; irrigated farming; sparse arid pastoralism and oases farming and urban and peri-urban farming systems. In terms of [...]

While the COVID-19 pandemic is devastating lives, public health systems, livelihoods and economies all over the world, populations living in food crisis contexts are particularly exposed to its effects. Countries with existing humanitarian crises are particularly exposed to the effects of [...]