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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Special Report: El Niño and Positive Indian Ocean Dipole to have Significant Multi-Sectoral Impacts in East Africa
While El Niño events often receive the most global attention, El Niño/La Niña is not the only clima…
Food Security Statement, August 2023
Based on recent IPC data, about 65.8 million people in 10 of the 13 countries covered by the FSNWG …
Global Report on Food Crises 2023, Regional focus on IGAD Member States
The report highlights the devastating reality faced by 301,000 people who experienced Catastrophe (…
Global Report on Food Crises 2023
The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023 estimates that over a quarter of a billion people were…
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IGAD Regional Focus of the Global Report on Food Crises 2022
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 million people were estimated …
Global Report on Food Crises 2022
Globally, levels of hunger remain alarmingly high. In 2021,
they surpassed all previous records as reported by the
Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), with close to 193 million
people acutely food insecure and in …
Food Security Statement, May 2022
Key messages
- Drought conditions continued to worsen in southern and south-eastern Ethiopia, the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) of Kenya and across most of Somalia following the reality of a fourth consecutive season of below-average …
FSNWG Drought Special Report April 2022
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) after three consecutive seasons of below-average rains. This …
Food Security and Nutrition Snapshot, April 2022
- 53.1 million people in Crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity (IPC1 Phase 3+). 23.5 million of them from six of the eight IGAD member states.
- Prolonged drought conditions, particularly in eastern and southern …
Food Security Statement, March 2022
- Consecutive seasons of below-average rains have led to moderate to severe drought conditions in various parts of the region, including southern and south-eastern Ethiopia, northern and eastern Kenya, most of Somalia and localised parts of …