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ProjectFactsheetStrengthening the Institutional Capacity of IFRAH - TCP/SFE/3903 2025
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No results found.The Horn of Africa is among the most food-insecure regions globally, with a large portion of its population experiencing multidimensional poverty, chronic hunger, and malnutrition. Recent reports estimate that approximately one-third of the population is undernourished. It is essential to build strong internal capacity to coordinate, facilitate, and share data and information on programs and action plans aimed at addressing both chronic and acute hunger in the region, both in the short and long term. Addressing food security and building resilience in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region of Eastern Africa requires integrated, coordinated approaches, evidence-based interventions, and strong partnerships – all of which are currently lacking. This project was designed to fill these gaps by focusing on strengthening the institutional capacity of IGAD’s Food Security and Resilience Analysis Hub (IFRAH). Improving food security and resilience are complex, multi-dimensional issues that demand coordinated efforts. Policies, responses, and development interventions targeting food security and resilience must be supported by credible, timely information products, effective coordination, strong partnerships, and consensus among strategic partners and Member States. This project aimed to support IFRAH overcome some of these core challenges by strengthening its institutional capacity, with a focus on three key outputs: identifying and addressing IFRAH’s primary capacity needs; implementing the IGAD Regional Platform (IGAD-RP); and enhancing IFRAH’s networks for resource mobilization. -
ProjectFactsheetPost-Harvest Loss Reduction for Enhanced Food and Nutrition Security in IGAD Member States - TCP/SFE/3702 2022
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Food insecurity and malnutrition remain a major public health and socioe conomic concern in Africa, particularly in Eastern Africa, which is home to more than half of the continent's undernourished population The region is highly dependent on food import, in particular cereals According to recent estimates (FAO 2021 The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World), around 70 million people in the region are food insecure, and at least 20 million of its population are dependent on food aid The lack of food self sufficiency has prompted national and regional policymakers in the Eastern Africa region to investigate the causes of low production and to promote interventions to increase domestic food production and reduce food losses along the agricultural value chain Post harvest losses ( is an essential, but often overlooked component that jeopardizes food security and affects incomes of producers PHL is a measurable reduction in foodstuffs caused by insects, microorganisms, rodents, and birds, which can affect the quantity or quality of agricultural crops produced. -
ProjectFactsheetIncreasing Incomes for Pastoralists by Strengthening Export of Safe and Quality Livestock and Meat from the IGAD Region to Mitigate Impact of COVID-19 - TCP/SFE/3803 2024
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No results found.By October 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic represented an unprecedented emergency and protecting public health was a priority. Governments, policymakers and the international community attempted to mitigate the immediate negative impacts of the pandemic, as well as the potential impacts on key sectors contributing to food security, nutrition and livelihoods. In Eastern Africa, the livestock sector is a key contributor to these areas, especially for the most vulnerable populations. In 2020, the effects of COVID-19 on the livestock sector had already severely disrupted national and regional livestock value chains. Lessons from past epidemics indicated that these disruptions, along with their socioeconomic consequences, were likely to grow. The IGAD region has a population of 205 million people, of whom 70 percent depend on livestock for their livelihoods and food security, and a land area of about 5.2 million km2, of which two thirds is arid and semi-arid land mainly utilized for livestock keeping.
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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. -
BookletCorporate general interestEmissions due to agriculture
Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
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No results found.The FAOSTAT emissions database is composed of several data domains covering the categories of the IPCC Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector of the national GHG inventory. Energy use in agriculture is additionally included as relevant to emissions from agriculture as an economic production sector under the ISIC A statistical classification, though recognizing that, in terms of IPCC, they are instead part of the Energy sector of the national GHG inventory. FAO emissions estimates are available over the period 1961–2018 for agriculture production processes from crop and livestock activities. Land use emissions and removals are generally available only for the period 1990–2019. This analytical brief focuses on overall trends over the period 2000–2018.