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Key messages: Southern Africa is facing a looming crisis as the El Nino-induced drought impose a significant strain on the region's agricultural sector, threatening food security for millions...

From October 2023 to March 2024, rising temperatures and a severe lack of precipitation have intensified and expanded progressively across Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia, as well as most...

Climate change has been a significant threat to sustainable agriculture impacting trade and food security. This research investigates the impacts of climate change on agricultural trade and food...

Food security is an important issue throughout the World. While it is important to maintain food production in a changing environment, it is also important to improve crop yield...

Main Messages The world is hotter today than it has been for 12,000 years; the last seven years have been the hottest on record. On every...

WFP has extensive experience integrating climate risk insurance solutions as an element of financial and social protection. This factsheet provides a summary of the evidence on how WFP-supported microinsurance...

While Southern Africa contributes only 1 percent to global carbon emissions, their temperatures are rising at double the global rate and climate impacts such...

This briefing investigates the ‘driving forces’ or ‘trends’ shaping southern African food systems. The analysis is intended to raise awareness of the potential to shape future outcomes in this complex multi-faceted...

Selected experiences with GMOs in industrialized and developing countries show that the promise of bioengineering for strengthening food security cannot materialize unless and until GMOs are accepted by the vast...

The 2008 global food price crisis, and the resurgence of food prices in 2010–2011, caused both widespread concern and expectations. On the one hand, countries whose food supply...