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ProjectFactsheetEnhancing Food Security and Livelihoods for Small-Scale Farmers in Lebanon - GCP/LEB/045/SWI-F 2025
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No results found.Lebanon is currently facing a critical food security crisis. Its food system, meanwhile, faces multiple challenges, including fragmented land, reliance on imported agricultural inputs, inefficient water use and outdated infrastructure. These issues are exacerbated by an ongoing water crisis, as well as public health concerns such as cholera and hepatitis outbreaks. Given the region’s heavy dependence on agriculture, these factors significantly heighten its vulnerability. Over 1.05 million individuals – including Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian refugees – experiencing acute food insecurity, placing them in Phase 3 of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). This number is expected to rise to 1.65 million by March 2025.In this context, the Government of Switzerland has provided funds for FAO to develop a project document, which focuses on addressing a range of challenges affecting food security in Lebanon. The project formulated aims to tackle the country’s urgent food security challenges by promoting integrated water resource management, enhancing agricultural practices and strengthening the livelihoods of vulnerable small-scale farmers and workers. -
ProjectFactsheetStrengthening Community Resilience to Climate Change and Safeguarding Livelihoods in Malawi - GCP/MLW/067/EC 2023
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No results found.In addition to its high vulnerability to climate change and variability, Malawi also has low capacity to adapt to the phenomenon, with the subsequent impact therefore posing a serious developmental challenge. In this context, the European Union’s Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) programme financed a four and a half year programme with FAO to address community resilience to climate change in Malawi through the present Action. The Action was aimed at strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate variability and change through sound safety nets and productive investments, using a holistic approach that blends disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), addressing the multiple threats to livelihoods through short and medium term interventions. It was designed to consolidate linkages and synergies among ongoing resilience building and social protection programmes led by the Government. -
ProjectFactsheetIncreasing Incomes and Enhancing Food and Nutrition Security in Malawi in the Context of Climate Change - GCP/MLW/072/EC 2025
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No results found.Although it accounts for around 30 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and generates over 80 percent of national export earnings, Malawi’s agriculture sector suffers from a lack of diversification and low productivity. The reasons for this include low productivity, a lack of access to farming inputs, weak linkages to markets and limited irrigation, in particular among smallholder farmers. In this context, the present project contributed to Objective 1 of the KULIMA Programme, “Promoting sustainable agricultural growth and incomes to enhance food and nutrition security in Malawi within the context of a changing climate”. Specifically, the project was conceived to support the District Agriculture Extension Services System (DAESS) in ensuring the sustainable increase of agricultural productivity and diversified production. This was to be attained by building the capacity of a pool of Farmer Field School (FFS) master trainers and community-based facilitators (CBFs) drawn from selected farming communities.
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BookletFlagshipIn Brief to The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022
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2022The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the media, policy makers and a more general public. -
BookletHigh-profileFAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 2022The FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 was endorsed by FAO Council in June 2022. This new strategy replaces the previous strategy from 2017 to better FAO's climate action with the Strategic Framework 2022-2031, and other FAO strategies that have been developed since then. The Strategy was elaborated following an inclusive process of consultation with FAO Members, FAO staff from headquarters and decentralized offices, as well as external partners. It articulates FAO's vision for agrifood systems by 2050, around three main pillars of action: at global and regional level, at country level, and at local level. The Strategy also encourages key guiding principles for action, such as science and innovation, inclusiveness, partnerships, and access to finance.
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Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021
Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all
2021In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures. This report presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 and offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario further complicated by the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes new estimates of the cost and affordability of healthy diets, which provide an important link between the food security and nutrition indicators and the analysis of their trends. Altogether, the report highlights the need for a deeper reflection on how to better address the global food security and nutrition situation.To understand how hunger and malnutrition have reached these critical levels, this report draws on the analyses of the past four editions, which have produced a vast, evidence-based body of knowledge of the major drivers behind the recent changes in food security and nutrition. These drivers, which are increasing in frequency and intensity, include conflicts, climate variability and extremes, and economic slowdowns and downturns – all exacerbated by the underlying causes of poverty and very high and persistent levels of inequality. In addition, millions of people around the world suffer from food insecurity and different forms of malnutrition because they cannot afford the cost of healthy diets. From a synthesized understanding of this knowledge, updates and additional analyses are generated to create a holistic view of the combined effects of these drivers, both on each other and on food systems, and how they negatively affect food security and nutrition around the world.In turn, the evidence informs an in-depth look at how to move from silo solutions to integrated food systems solutions. In this regard, the report proposes transformative pathways that specifically address the challenges posed by the major drivers, also highlighting the types of policy and investment portfolios required to transform food systems for food security, improved nutrition, and affordable healthy diets for all. The report observes that, while the pandemic has caused major setbacks, there is much to be learned from the vulnerabilities and inequalities it has laid bare. If taken to heart, these new insights and wisdom can help get the world back on track towards the goal of ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition in all its forms.