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ProjectFactsheetEmergency Response to The Desert Locust Crisis in Yemen - TCP/YEM/3801 2021
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No results found.The Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is potentially the world’s most dangerous pest, causing catastrophic damage to crops and pastures and representing a major threat to food security. It is a transboundary pest with the ability to spread over large areas, destroying vegetation and leading to famine and displacement. Outbreaks occur periodically but are complex to predict. When not managed at the place of origin or breeding ground, they can lead to losses of up to 100 percent of food and fodder crops. In Yemen, control operations against mature swarms, mature groups and hopper groups of DL have been in progress for some years. In 2019, 153 225 ha were surveyed and 13 407 ha ground-treated with ultra-low volume (ULV) pesticide. In February 2020, reports from DLMCC of MAI indicated that low to moderate populations of DL had been found in the southern part of the country and high pollution in dry and coastal areas, where heavy rainfall provided favourable ecological conditions for DL breeding and development. The control and management of new generations of DL is the responsibility of PPD, which was faced by a series of problems. These included a shortage of control application equipment and vehicles for survey and control operations, and, most seriously, a shortage of pesticide. Training in locust management procedures and operations for PPD and DLMCC locust staff was also required, as well as the conduct of a needs assessment. Finally, the unstable situation in the country had led to a serious deterioration of financial support to the main public services, impeding the field operations of DLMCC. Against this background, MAI requested FAO technical support and funds to address and manage the problem. -
BookletHigh-profileGreater Horn of Africa and Yemen | Desert locust crisis appeal, January 2020–December 2021
Revised appeal for sustaining control efforts and protecting livelihoods (six-month extension)
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No results found.A desert locust upsurge is still underway in the Greater Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, while the situation has returned to normal in Southwest Asia and the potential spread to West Africa was stopped in July 2020, thanks to massive control operations from May to July 2020 in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. As anticipated, although substantial control operations are underway, the battle to control the desert locust is not yet over. In response, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has revised its previously published desert locust crisis appeal, providing an update and extension of FAO's funding requirements for rapid response and sustained action in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen to address the ongoing desert locust crisis. This extended Appeal will therefore focus on extended surveillance and control operations in Ethiopia and Somalia, with continued surveillance and readiness to conduct control operations in Yemen. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetHigh-profileWest Africa | Desert locust crisis appeal, May–December 2020
Anticipatory action and rapid response
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No results found.Recent forecasts by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have indicated a risk of locust invasion in West Africa from June 2020. From East Africa, some swarms could reach the eastern part of the Sahel and continue westwards from Chad to Mauritania. Surveillance and control teams will be mobilized across the region with a focus on Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and the Niger, and extended to Senegal. Countries such as Cameroon, the Gambia and Nigeria are also on watch in the event that desert locust spreads to these highly acute food-insecure countries. Since the region could be threatened in the coming months, FAO is strongly encouraging no regret investments in preparedness and anticipatory action to control swarms and safeguard livelihoods, given already high levels of acute food insecurity. Therefore, cost estimates for preparedness, anticipatory action and rapid response have been assessed. FAO’s Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Western Region and FAO’s subregional resilience team for West Africa and the Sahel are already working together with potentially affected countries for the implementation of anticipatory actions, such as training, pre-positioning of resources, initiating surveillance activities and control operations. The countries of the subregion most exposed to the threat of a locust invasion are Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger and Senegal. All of these countries are already facing the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which presents significant further risks to food security. Applying lessons from the 2003–2005 desert locust upsurge in West Africa and from the implementation of resilience programmes in the region, including its Early Warning Early Action approach, FAO is focusing on anticipatory action to avert a full blown food crisis, mainly by: scaling up support to governments to monitor and control the pest; and safeguarding livelihood interventions.
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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.