Food Security

  • 28 Nov 2016

    COP22: Not enough action on African agriculture

    Topics: 
    Agriculture & Fisheries
    Climate change
    Food security
    Body: 
    The COP22 climate change summit, which was hosted on the African continent, was supposed to be the “COP of Action,” by translating the Paris Agreement into practice and by focusing on African priorities. African concerns were placed at the heart of the conference’s debates, but in terms of concrete outcomes, COP22 did not live up to its promise to advance African issues. Read on
  • 15 Nov 2016

    One out of three people in northeastern Nigeria faced with acute food insecurity

    Country: 
    Nigeria
    Topics: 
    Agriculture & Fisheries
    Food security
    Security
    Terrorism
    Members: 
    CILSS
    SWAC: 
    SWAC
    Body: 
    According to the findings of the Cadre harmonisé analysis of August 2016, some 4.4 million people in northeastern Nigeria were facing acute food insecurity (phases 3-5) requiring urgent humanitarian assistance. In the worst affected and less accessible pockets of Borno state, nearly 60 000 people face the threat of famine (phase 5). Read on
  • 15 Nov 2016

    Achieving a nutrition revolution for Africa

    Topics: 
    Food security
    Body: 
    The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) released the 2015 edition of its series, “Annual Trends and Outlook Report” (ATOR), dedicated this year to the nutrition revolution in Africa. Read on
  • 17 Oct 2016

    African Leaders for Nutrition

    Country: 
    Côte d'Ivoire
    Topics: 
    Food security
    Body: 
    On 17 October in Abidjan, Akinwumi Adesina, the African Development Bank President and John Kufuor, the former president of Ghana and current co-chair of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, opened the first official meeting of the group, African Leaders for Nutrition. The goal of this group is to strengthen the political dialogue between the continent’s leaders in order to convince them to make nutrition issues a greater priority. Read on
  • 23 Sep 2016

    Chad: USD 10 million for humanitarian assistance

    Country: 
    Chad
    Topics: 
    Development co-operation
    Food security
    Security
    Body: 
    The security situation remains extremely fragile in the Lake Chad Basin and there have been several security incidents on Chad’s borders. According to the most recent UNOCHA update on the humanitarian situation in Chad: some 3.8 million people faced food insecurity at the end of August; and the country hosts some 388 000 refugees, 106 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 89 000 returnees. Read on
  • 23 Sep 2016

    Good crop prospects for the 2016-17 campaign

    Topics: 
    Agriculture & Fisheries
    Food security
    Livestock
    RPCA: 
    RPCA
    Body: 
    As part of the Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA), the regional technical meeting of the for the crisis prevention and management mechanism (PREGEC) was held from 19-21 September 2016, in Lome, Togo. Participants presented the agricultural forecasts and food prospects for the Sahel and West Africa. The agricultural forecast is good; cereal production could be as high as 64-75 million tonnes, an increase of up to 28% compared to the five-year average. Read on
  • 12 Sep 2016

    CILSS Day focuses on water and agriculture

    Country: 
    Mali
    Topics: 
    Agriculture & Fisheries
    Climate change
    Food security
    Resilience
    Sahara-Sahel
    Members: 
    CILSS
    Body: 
    On the occasion of the 31st CILSS Day, the Malian President and current CILSS chairman, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK), raised awareness about the importance of water for the Sahel and West Africa’s social and economic development. In his video message, he called for national and regional policies to support sustainable management of agricultural water resources. Water resource management will also help address the many challenges that the region faces such as food security, resilience and climate change. Read on
  • 25 Aug 2016

    Developing a resilience measurement tool

    Topics: 
    Food security
    Resilience
    Members: 
    CILSS
    Body: 
    CILSS organised a workshop in Niamey from 23-25 August that brought together some 30 resilience experts from five Sahelian countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, Senegal), as well as development partners. Within the Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) and the Global Alliance for Resilience (AGIR), the region is working to develop a consensual resilience measurement tool. A technical platform, led by CILSS with technical support from the FAO, was launched in March 2016 in Dakar. Read on
  • 05 Aug 2016

    The Regional Food Security Reserve

    Topics: 
    Agriculture & Fisheries
    Food security
    Infrastructure
    Livestock
    Regional integration
    Resilience
    Members: 
    ECOWAS
    RPCA: 
    RPCA
    SWAC: 
    SWAC
    Body: 
    As the main component of the ECOWAS Food Storage Strategy, the Regional Food Security Reserve constitutes a third line of response to crises, after local/community-level and national food reserves. Adopted in February 2013 at the ECOWAS Heads of State Conference in Yamoussoukro, the reserve is an important instrument of regional solidarity. Read on
  • 05 Aug 2016

    Take the survey on open data, agriculture and nutrition

    Topics: 
    Agriculture & Fisheries
    Food security
    Opinion: 
    Opinion
    Body: 
    The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) Project works to support the sharing of data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable. The Land Portal and partners launched a survey of people working with open data in the agriculture and nutrition space. The data from this survey will provide inputs for a training needs assessment report that will inform the development of new training materials and courses. The deadline to participate in the survey is 5 September. Read on

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