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The Global Early Warning – Early Action (EWEA) report on food security and agriculture is developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The report is part of FAO’s EWEA system, which aims to translate forecasts and early warnings into anticipatory action.
Throughout the region, heavy rains that intensified in late April have resulted in excessive flooding, affecting more than half a million people; damaging infrastructure and livelihoods and caused over 370 deaths. Although the rains have also brought relief to some areas that have been affected by t... more
The devastating impacts of the 2015–16 El Niño will be felt well into 2017. This crisis was predicted, yet overall, the response has been too little too late. The looming La Niña event may further hit communities that are already deeply vulnerable. To end this cycle of failure, there is an urgen... more
Since December 2016, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has affected Peru, causing heavy rainfall, floods, landslides, hail and electric storms. Although the impact has been particularly serious in the northern coastal regions, levels of affectation are reported in all 24 of the country’s de... more
Nutrition Situation of Children in Southern Africa • Almost 15 million people are food and nutrition insecure (including approximately 7.8 million children) in the 7 priority countries. • Approximately 36% of children in the 7 priority countries in Southern Africa are stunted and there... more
Globally, millions of vulnerable people are experiencing increased hunger and poverty due to droughts, floods, storms and extreme temperature fluctuations as a result of a climatic occurrence: El Niño. This phenomenon is not an individual weather event but a climate pattern which occurs every two t... more
IN NUMBERS 60 MILLION people affected globally at present. 32 MILLION people food insecure in Southern Africa. 10.2 MILLION people in Ethiopia need emergency food assistance. 50 PERCENT crop losses in Haiti due to El Niño-influenced drought.
El Niño is over but its impact on children is set to worsen as disease, malnutrition continue to spread In Eastern and Southern Africa alone, 26.5 million children are in need of aid
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Southern Africa • The impact of the drought in Southern Africa on WASH is already observed in places where the drought has been more acute and where WASH coverage was already low. • Only 61 per cent of the region’s population has access to safe... more
Health Situation of Children in Southern Africa The impacts of El Niño and La Niña are expected to more than double the regular caseloads of childhood illnesses (malaria, cholera, pneumonia, measles and diarrhoea) in the most affected countries. • Diarrhoea cases among children are expec... more
English Analysis on World and 19 other countries about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition and Drought; published on 13 Jan 2021 by FAO