FAO-WFP anticipatory action strategy

This joint Strategy acknowledges the varied contexts in which the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) operate with respect to anticipatory action. It encourages the capturing of all available synergies and complementarities on a case-by-case basis, and the avoidance of overlaps towards the common goal of anticipating and preventing food crisis wherever they are forecast.

By partnering on scaling up Anticipatory Action, WFP and FAO commit to:

1. jointly deliver a comprehensive set of Anticipatory Action measures to protect people’s food security from shocks;
2. expand the geographic coverage and anticipation for different types of shocks, beyond hydrometeorological hazards, that can be predicted and affect agriculture and food security; and
3. jointly advocate for the mainstreaming of Anticipatory Action within key policies, processes and institutions, including disaster risk management, social protection and climate change adaptation to enable sustainability and greater cost efficiencies.