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Countries in crisis requiring external assistance for food are expected to lack the resources to deal with reported critical problems of food insecurity. The list below covers crises...

The conflict in Ukraine started on 24 February 2022. Besides devastating the lives of the population of Ukraine and decimating critical parts of the country’s infrastructure and economy, the armed conflict has...

The IPC-CH Dashboard is a visual display of the total number of people experiencing or facing high levels of acute food insecurity classified in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3...

The Sahel and West Africa region is facing another major food and nutrition crisis, with an estimated 65 million people under pressure (phase 3) for the period June-August...

The 37th RPCA annual meeting was held virtually on 6-8 December 2021 with the general theme, “Women, conflict and food and nutrition issues.” The meeting also took...

For the second consecutive year, the region must prepare for a major food and nutrition crisis in 2021. The March update indicates that 27.1 million people might need emergency...

The OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data's Covid-19 data explorer pulls data from over 20 sources to help understand the progress of coronavirus and its impact on acute...

Food assistance is provided in anticipation of, during, and in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Its objective is to save lives and livelihoods to avert emergency rates of acute malnutrition or detrimental...

The recurrent, protracted and complex nature of many crises re-enforces the importance of developing longer-term interventions that address humanitarian needs as well as development and peacebuilding challenges. Resilience is the ability...