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Heavy rainfall and flooding across Somalia – exacerbated by the lingering effects of previous droughts – have driven 4 million people (21 percent of the population)...

KEY MESSAGES Rainfall deficits during the recent March-April-May 2022 rainy season have been the most severe in at least the last 70 years in Ethiopia...

This publication describes climate-smart agriculture case studies that apply the five action points for CSA implementation. The action points are: expanding the evidence base for CSA...

Over 15 million people are now acutely food insecure across the Horn of Africa because of drought, up from 12-13 million at the beginning of the year. Should the ongoing...

The fourth edition of the IGAD Regional Focus of the Global Report on Food Crises highlights the alarming high-levels of acute food insecurity in 2021 in the region, where about 42...

Highlights Across the Horn of Africa, the 2022 March to May (MAM) seasonal rains were late, poorly distributed, and generally below-average. Seasonal rainfall totals from...

In February 2022, FSNWG issued a drought special report, examining the current food security situation across the eastern Horn of Africa (i.e. Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia)...

Two consecutive poor rainy seasons since October 2020, which resulted in reduced harvests and deteriorated rangeland conditions, have been followed by severe dryness at the start...

FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, is a provider of early warning and analysis on acute food insecurity. Created in 1985 by the US Agency for International Development...

Despite above-average national cereal crop production and improved livestock production following a largely favorable Deyr (October-December) rainy season, up to 1.3 million people across...