Drought is a devastating and complex natural hazard that represents a constant risk for most smallholder farmers around the world. Between 2006 and 2016, the agriculture sector absorbed about 83 percent of all damage and loss associated with drought according [...]

Kuchi pastoralists, numbering around 2.4 million people in Afghanistan, are one of the region’s most vulnerable groups. Their condition has since been exacerbated by COVID-19 and containment measures related to the pandemic. As part of its emerging COVID-19 response, the [...]

An event organized by the Cash and Markets Working Group of the global Food Security Cluster. Date: Monday 16 November, 2020 Time: 2:00 - 3:30PM (Rome Time) The agenda will be: Welcome and introduction Ensuring nutritional adequacy in design of CVA – presenter: WFP and [...]

  11th and 12th November1pm-4.30pm, Rome time (CET) Register here for the biannual Global Partners Meeting and the 10th anniversary of the gFSC! A variety of critical topics will be covered, including coordination challenges and new ways of working, the resurgence of famine, food security and conflict, [...]

The continuing COVID-19 pandemic—and related lockdowns—triggered a massive cash crisis around the world for families who depend on informal earnings, including daily wage workers. In Pakistan, a nationwide lockdown was imposed on 21 March 2020. This had major reverberations on [...]