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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IGAD Regional Focus of the 2026 Global Report on Food Crises
More than 40.3 million people face high levels of acute food insecurity across six IGAD Member Stat…
FSNWG Special Report on El Niño
- The ongoing El Niño episode is forecast to strengthen over the coming months and persist through ea…
Food Security and Nutrition Update May-June 2026
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- In June 2026, over 54.4 million people in 10 of the 13 countries covered by the FSNWG w…
Food Security and Nutrition Update: January - February 2026
Key messages
- In February 2026, over 67.5 million people in 10 of the 13 countries covered by the FSN…
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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. …
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, …
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 …
Nearly 28 million people were already food insecure before COVID-19 in the IGAD region
Nairobi / Djibouti, 4th June 2020: An estimated 27.6 million people across the IGAD region were classified in Crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3+) levels of acute food insecurity in 2019. This figure represents 20% …