Resources

The 2018 Global Report on Food Crises provides the latest estimates of severe hunger in the world.

The Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) report on food security and agriculture is developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through its EWEA.

With a strong emphasis on data preparedness, the approach helps provide a good enough snapshot to fill the initial information vacuum in the first three days after a sudden-onset disaster.

This report provides United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members with an overview of the numbers of people in acute need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance in 22 countries or

The 2017 Global Food Policy Report provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events.

This graphic identifies a number of trends, challenges and priority actions along a path towards Zero Hunger by 2030, the end date of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Our planet faces multiple and complex challenges in the 21st century.

Globally, 108 million people in 2016 were reported to be facing Crisis level food insecurity or worse (IPC Phase 3 and above).

This publication is a compilation of the papers presented at a workshop of the FAO/UNEP Programme on Sustainable Food Systems held on the 10-11 September 2014 at FAO headquarters, Rome.

The adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices at scale requires appropriate institutional and governance mechanisms to facilitate the dissemination of information and to ensure broad pa

In 2014, the Adapting to an Urban World project was developed in order to modify assessment methods and tools for urban contexts.

This paper aims to provide an overview of the effects of climate change on food security and nutrition, and to explore ways to reduce negative impacts through adaptation and resilience.

This report presents a detailed description of the methodology and first results of FAO's Voices of the Hungry project.

In line with the growing interest around resilience, and as investments continue to be made in resilience-focused programs and policies, the need for measurement will likely increase.

This document introduces RIMA-II, the technical evolution of the FAO Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) tool.

The humanitarian impact of the 2015-2016 El Niño remains deeply alarming, now affecting over 60 million people.

The 2016 Global Nutrition Report focuses on the theme of making – and measuring – global commitments to nutrition, and what it will take to end malnutrition in all its forms by 2030.

This study from FAO aims to help fill the current knowledge gap on the nature and magnitude of impacts of disasters triggered by natural hazards on the agriculture sector and its subsectors.

This study, produced by FAO and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat presents an updated geographic and demographic picture of the world’s mountain areas and population, based on data gathered form

This report from researchers affiliated with Tufts University, FANTA and FEWS NET with technical support from WFP and the IPC Global Support Unit focuses on the tools used by the Integrated Food Se

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has released its Joint Programme Document for the Resilience Analysis Unit (RAU).

These Guidelines were developed within the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics.

The purpose of this Handbook on Master Sampling Frames for Agriculture is to provide guidelines for the construction and use of Master Sampling Frames (MSFs) in agricultural statistics.

This publication presents the key findings pertaining to the region, contained in FAO’s State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 (SOFI) report.

Following the release of the resilience analysis focused on the Republic of Sudan, the FAO Resilience Analysis and Policies (RAP) team has developed a brief to concisely and clearly provide the pol

Building up on previous work (Food Security and Nutrition Information Systems Mapping and Capacity Assessment) done by the FSIN in the country in 2013, FAO, FEWS NET and WFP decided to institute a