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ProjectFactsheetAdapting Agriculture To Climate Change Project (AACCP) - Building Climate Resilience In The Gambia - GCP/GAM/033/LDF 2025
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No results found.Climate change poses severe challenges to The Gambia's agricultural sector, where over 70 percent of farmers depend on small-scale, subsistence rainfed crop production and traditional livestock rearing. Over the past 40 years, climate records show clear negative trends including declining rainfall, shorter growing seasons, increased variability, and rising temperatures that threaten rural livelihoods and food security. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding from the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), implemented the Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project (AACCP) in collaboration with The Gambia’s Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) to promote sustainable and diversified livelihood strategies that reduce climate vulnerability in agriculture and livestock sectors. The project addressed critical barriers, including insufficient institutional capacity for climate adaptation, inadequate vulnerability data and risk information systems, farmers' heavy dependence on monocropping and widespread rangeland degradation. -
ProjectFactsheetImproved Adaptive Capacity and Resilience to Current Climate Variability and Change in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda - UNJP/SFE/004/WMO 2025
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No results found.The Greater Horn of Africa is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, especially droughts, which are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change. Since agriculture in the region relies heavily on rainfall, this poses a serious threat to food production. Food and nutrition insecurity remain critical issues, particularly in arid and semi-arid areas that face the highest levels of crisis. In addition to conflict, prolonged droughts are key drivers of this insecurity. Given the region's growing population, coordinated efforts are urgently needed to stabilize and boost food production. The Agricultural Climate Resilience Enhancement Initiative (ACREI) is a regional project implemented from 2018 to 2024 in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, aimed at strengthening the resilience of smallholder farmers, agropastoralists, and pastoralists in the Horn of Africa to climate change. Funded by the Adaptation Fund and led by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in partnership with FAO and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC). ACREI focused on improving climate forecasting and building community capacity to use climate information for better decision-making. The project was structured with three components, with roles and responsibilities shared across the three organizations (FAO, WMO and IGAD ICPAC). Component 1 focused on strengthening community-level climate-resilient agricultural practices through participatory planning and field implementation. Component 2 focused on enhancing the capacity of extension systems and actors to deliver climate-sensitive agricultural support. Component 3 focused on improving the generation, dissemination, and use of climate information for informed decision-making at all institutional levels. -
ProjectFactsheetMainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change across the Agropastoral Sector in Senegal - GCP/RAF/514/ITA 2024
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FAO launched the “One million cisterns for the Sahel” initiative to mitigate the multiple impacts of climate change in Senegal and the Sahel, exacerbated by other constraints on the region such as insecurity, low household incomes, and malnutrition. The project supported this initiative, focusing specifically on women in vulnerable rural communities within arid and semi-arid zones prone to climate shocks, predominantly in Senegal and, on a pilot basis, in Burkina Faso, Chad, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger and Togo.It embraced an integrated approach, seeking to provide beneficiaries with sustainable access to land, water, and production resources aligned with agroecological principles. This strategy was intended to strengthen their food and nutritional security while building resilience.
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookFood loss analysis: causes and solutions – The Republic of Uganda. Beans, maize, and sunflower studies 2019
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No results found.This report illustrates the food loss assessment studies undertaken along the maize, sunflower and beans supply chains in Uganda in 2015-16 and 2016-17. They aimed to identify the critical loss points in the selected supply chains, the key stages at which food losses occur, why they occur, the extent and impact of food losses and the economic, social and environmental implications of the food losses. Furthermore, these studies also evaluated the feasibility of potential interventions to reduce food losses and waste. -
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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.