Food security and agriculture

This paper discusses how social protection can become more ‘anticipatory’ and make food security more resilient to climate risks.

As the ASPIRE index highlights, countries worldwide are currently facing numerous challenges, particularly due to climate-related disruptions and the need for anticipatory social protection.

Landmark review says urgent action needed to conserve resources and save ecosystems that supply fresh water

This policy brief highlights priority areas for actionable advances in improving food security, nutrition and child health in Burkina Faso in the context of a changing climate.

The study evaluates the impact of droughts and heatwaves both as singly and as compound and cascading on maize yield in Sinaloa Mexico from 1990 to 2022, using the WOFOST crop model.

The ISF's project aims to protect financial institutions from less frequent, large-scale weather events while adapting an existing micro-insurance product to directly safeguard smallholder farmers from more frequent, localized climate risks.

Governments often seek to protect domestic consumers following climate shocks to agricultural production, but these policies may exacerbate global losses.

FAO is working to enhance preparedness in West and Central Africa against banana bunchy top virus and Fusarium wilt TR4 through capacity-building, training, and local stakeholder collaboration, to boost disease detection and prevention for banana crops.