Between September 2022 and February 2023, about 4.7 million people are projected to experience high levels of acute food insecurity. Economic contraction, sociopolitical instability and worsening insecurity has gradually deteriorated the food security situation in the country. The cholera outbreak is likely to hit vulnerable populations who are already facing food insecurity, and humanitarian assistance is urgently needed to save lives.

The cereal supply and demand balances included in this report present a subset of data from the FAO/GIEWS Country Cereal Balance System (CCBS). The CCBS is a is a unique database created and continuously kept up to date by the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) and Basic Foodstuffs teams of the Markets and Trade Division, with data since 1980. It contains annual supply and...

FAO assesses that globally 45 countries, including 33 in Africa, nine in Asia, two in Latin America and the Caribbean, and one in Europe, are in need of external assistance for food. Multi-year high inflation rates continue to aggravate food insecurity conditions, particularly in low‑income food-deficit countries. Conflicts and extreme weather events remain the key drivers of severe acute food insecurity across the globe, with particular concerns for countries in...

El proyecto liderado por la FAO “Creación de cadenas de valor mundiales responsables para la producción y el comercio sostenibles de frutas tropicales” (GCP/GLO/022/GER) trabaja con empresas, organizaciones de agricultores y otros actores en las cadenas de valor del aguacate y la piña. Nuestro objetivo es mejorar el rendimiento empresarial ayudando a estas dos cadenas de valor a ser más sostenibles y resilientes. La serie de Informes de Acción proporciona...

Este informe técnico describe una herramienta de análisis de brechas que permite a las empresas de los sectores del aguacate y la piña comparar sus políticas y los estándares voluntarios que utilizan con las recomendaciones clave de debida diligencia de la Guía de la OCDE-FAO para cadenas de suministro agrícola responsable. La herramienta de análisis de brechas fue desarrollada por el Proyecto de Frutas Responsables liderado por la FAO (GCP/GLO/022/GER) que...

Countries’ varying natural resource endowments are vital in explaining international trade. Traditional trade theory suggests that differences in technology and factor endowments lead countries to specialize and export certain goods or services in which they have a comparative advantage. The computable general equilibrium (CGE) model simulations used in this paper aim to explain agricultural trade patterns and show how agricultural trade would change in response to productivity, infrastructure and institutions improvements...

The November issue of the publication summarizes the salient trends and market outlook in 2022. The international meat prices reached an all-time high in June 2022 amid tight global supplies. Moreover, global meat production in 2022 is expected to expand only moderately, constrained by animal diseases, rising input costs and extreme weather events. Meanwhile, world meat trade is likely to fall, weighed by a contraction in pig meat imports and...