Who are we?
The Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) is a regional platform, currently co-chaired by ICPAC and FAO. It’s goal is two-fold: to provide an up-to-date food security and nutrition situation analysis (early warning) and to offer a forum to build consensus on critical issues facing policy and interventions. The FNSWG has served regional governments, donors, and non-governmental agencies since the early 2000’s. Current membership includes approximately 80 organisations (IGAD, UN agencies, NGOs, donors, and research institutions) who contribute to the operation of the working group, and its nutrition, markets, food security information, livestock and pastoralist sub-groups.
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FSNWG Food Security and Nutrition Update - March 2025
In March 2025, an estimated 85 million people in the region were highly food insecure and in urgent…
FSNWG Food Security and Nutrition Update - January 2025
In January 2025, an estimated 82.1 million people in the region were highly food insecure and in ur…
IGAD Regional Focus of the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises
The IGAD Regional Focus of the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises underscores a deepening food insec…
East Africa cross-border trade bulletin for January - March 2024
The Market Analysis Sub-group of the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) monitors inf…
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FSNWG Regional Desert Locust Impact Assessment Report
The Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) recently conducted a regional Desert Locust (DL) impact assessment in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda, during which 10,831 agricultural respondents living in DL-affected areas were interviewed . …
Food Security Statement September 2020
- In September, the food security and nutrition situation further deteriorated in most parts of the East and Central Africa (ECA) region. The situation would have been worse without humanitarian assistance and government-led support which was …
Food Security Statement August 2020
An estimated 26.2 million people in 7 of the 13 countries covered by the FSNWG in the Eastern and Central Africa Region are currently severely food insecure (IPC2 Phase 3+), and require urgent food assistance. …
IGAD Food Security and Nutrition Response Strategy
The compounding impacts of climatic shocks, conflict and insecurity, adverse macro-economic shocks, desert locust invasion and the COVID-19 pandemic, together with protracted food insecurity from past shocks will likely lead to a food security crisis …
Food Security Statement July 2020
- COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the region, leading to the loss of lives, disruptions to livelihoods and slowing down of national economies. The combined impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, desert locust invasion, macro-economic crises, …
Regional focus on IGAD Member States, 2020 Global report on Food Crisis
In 2019, 135 million people faced acute food insecurity that required urgent action (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) in 55 countries and territories analysed across the world, according to the Global Report on Food Crises …