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Useful websites to better understand "Food security and food crises"

Global Food and Nutrition Security

  • REACH

    • REACH provides granular data, timely information and in-depth analysis from contexts of crisis, disaster and displacement.

  • OCHA - Humanitarian response

    • The OCHA service on humanitarian response is a dedicated webpage that provides organized information (assessments, reports and maps) regarding current crisis.

  • OCHA Center for Humanitarian Data

    • OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data focuses on increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector.

  • ACAPS

    • ACAPS supports the humanitarian community’s work on severity and trends by diving into the current crisis around the globe.

  • Global Conflict Risk dashboard

    • The dashboard provides an overview per country and risk types regarding several aspects: food security, demographic, geography, economic.

  • Global Crisis Atlas

    • The Global Crisis Atlas is a catalog of digital maps produced by JRC in-house science service to meet the needs of the European External Action Service (EEAS), INTCEN (Intelligence and Situation Centre) and the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI). It includes maps related to conflict and insecurity, migration and refugees and other thematic maps.

  • Start Network

    • Start Network is made up of more than 40 aid agencies across five continents, ranging from large international organisations to national NGOs. The aim of the network is to transform humanitarian action through innovation, fast funding, early action, and localisation.

  • IMMAP

    • The IMMAP initiative provides humanitarian data and information that contributes to assessments in many of the major ongoing crises in the world.

  • The Humanitarian Practice Network

    • The  Humanitarian Practice Network provides a forum for policy-makers, practitioners and others working in the humanitarian sector to share and disseminate information, analysis and experience.