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BookletHigh-profileHunger Hotspots
FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: October 2022 to January 2023 Outlook
2022Also available in:
No results found.The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 19 countries or situations – called hunger hotspots – during the outlook period from October 2022 to January 2023. -
Book (stand-alone)High-profileHunger Hotspots
FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: June to October 2025 outlook
2025Also available in:
No results found.In the current edition of a regular joint bi-yearly report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to worsen across 13 countries and territories identified as hotspots, during the outlook period from June to October 2025.The Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali remain hotspots at the highest concern level, while Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Myanmar are classified as hotspots of very high concern. Other hotspots are Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Somalia and the Syrian Arab Republic. Since the October 2024 edition, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been elevated to hotspot status. Conversely, regional clusters in East Africa (Ethiopia and Kenya) and Southern Africa (Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), as well as Niger, are no longer classified as hotspots due to improvements in climatic conditions. Nigeria, and Lebanon are also no longer classified as hotspots due to some improvement in the economic situation and a reduction in the intensity of military operations, respectively. Although these countries are no longer considered hotspots for the outlook period, future economic and conflict-related shocks, or climatic shifts, could lead to their reclassification.For the outlook period, funding for food and nutrition assistance falls critically short. Funding for humanitarian assistance must not be reduced. Instead, urgent assistance should be scaled up to protect livelihoods and improve food access across all hunger hotspots. This report outlines country-specific recommendations for urgent emergency responses, as well as anticipatory actions to meet existing humanitarian needs and implement short-term protective interventions before new crises emerge.The report focuses on the most severe and deteriorating acute hunger situations, but it does not represent all countries/territories experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity. -
BookletHigh-profileHunger Hotspots
FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity, June 2023 to November 2023 outlook
2023Also available in:
No results found.The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger hotspots during the outlook period from June to November 2023. For the outlook period, FAO and WFP are issuing an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in 18 hunger hotspots, including 2 regional clusters and comprising a total of 22 countries. In the hunger hotspots, parts of the population will likely face a significant deterioration of already high levels of acute food insecurity, putting lives and livelihoods at risk. Targeted humanitarian action is urgently needed to save lives and livelihoods in all 18 hunger hotspots. In eight of these – Afghanistan, Haiti, Nigeria, the Sahel region (Burkina Faso and Mali), Somalia, South Sudan, the Sudan and Yemen – humanitarian action is critical to prevent starvation and death.
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BookletCorporate general interestRecent developments in biotechnologies relevant to the characterization, sustainable use and conservation of genetic resources for food and agriculture 2022
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No results found.Over the past 15 years, there have been rapid and ever-increasing advances in science and technology, institutional and human capacities and infrastructure in the field of gene sequencing and in the associated bioinformatics (the application of information technology and computer science to the field of molecular biology) and high-performance computing. This publication provides an update on recent developments in biotechnologies relevant to the characterization, sustainable use and conservation of genetic resources for food and agriculture. -
Book (stand-alone)Corporate general interestUltra-processed foods, diet quality and human health 2019
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No results found.The significance of industrial processing for the nature of food and the state of human health - and in particular the techniques and ingredients developed by modern food science and technology - is generally underestimated. This is evident in both national and international policies and strategies designed to improve populations' nutrition and health. Until recently it has also been neglected in epidemiological and experimental studies concerning diet, nutrition and health. This report seeks to assess the impact of ultra-processed food on diet quality and health, based on NOVA, a food classification system developed by researchers at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureThe 10 elements of agroecology
Guiding the transition to sustainable food and agricultural systems
2018Today’s food and agricultural systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of food to global markets. However, high-external input, resource-intensive agricultural systems have caused massive deforestation, water scarcities, biodiversity loss, soil depletion and high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Despite significant progress in recent times, hunger and extreme poverty persist as critical global challenges. Even where poverty has been reduced, pervasive inequalities remain, hindering poverty eradication. Integral to FAO’s Common Vision for Sustainable Food and Agriculture, agroecology is a key part of the global response to this climate of instability, offering a unique approach to meeting significant increases in our food needs of the future while ensuring no one is left behind. Agroecology is an integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and management of food and agricultural systems. It seeks to optimize the interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment while taking into consideration the social aspects that need to be addressed for a sustainable and fair food system. Agroecology is not a new invention. It can be identified in scientific literature since the 1920s, and has found expression in family farmers’ practices, in grassroots social movements for sustainability and the public policies of various countries around the world. More recently, agroecology has entered the discourse of international and UN institutions.