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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetYear in review 2021: Near East and North Africa
Highlights of FAO's emergency and resilience programming
2022Also available in:
No results found.The Near East and North Africa region faces several intersecting challenges that have increased fragility, threatened resilience and exacerbated already high levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition, including famine risk in Yemen. These include scarcity of water and arable land, climate change and climate-related disasters, conflict, land degradation, increasing population growth, and transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases. As a heavily import-dependent region, the agrifood sector has also been severely affected by increases in prices of basic food items and agricultural inputs, exacerbated by the current economic shocks, including those caused by COVID-19. This has worsened the food security situation, especially for already vulnerable families. In 2021, conflict remained the main driver of food insecurity in the region. The three conflict-affected countries in the region (the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen) were among the top ten countries with the highest number of people in crisis or worse (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification [IPC] Phase 3 and above) levels of food insecurity in the world. This publication gives an overview of the emergency and resilience activities implemented in the Near East and North Africa in 2021. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetYear in review 2021: Southern Africa
Highlights of FAO's emergency and resilience programming
2022Also available in:
No results found.In Southern Africa, many countries recurrently suffer from arid or drought conditions, cyclones and storms. This exacerbates the already precarious food security and nutrition situation – which has witnessed an upward trajectory in the last ten years. In 2021, the most vulnerable countries were Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Climate change, the impacts of COVID-19 containment measures, the desert locust outbreak and conflict (Mozambique) contributed to the increased number of people suffering from food insecurity (around 47.6 million in 2021), poor nutrition and loss of livelihoods. This publication gives an overview of the emergency and resilience activities implemented in Southern Africa in 2021. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetYear in review 2021: West Africa
Highlights of FAO's emergency and resilience programming
2022Also available in:
No results found.In 2021, West Africa continued to face protracted insecurity and political instability, with conflicts in Central Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, the Niger and Nigeria). The impacts of such challenges were compounded by the socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Extreme poverty in the subregion increased by almost 3 percent in 2021 (COVID-19 West Africa Socio-Economic Impact Monitoring Report, released by the Economic Community of West African States). Consequently, the combined effects of these factors have led to a deterioration of food insecurity and malnutrition in the subregion, especially in conflict-affected areas. This publication gives an overview of the emergency and resilience activities implemented in West Africa in 2021.
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