Global Network for Food Insecurity, Risk Reduction and Food Crises Response

Launched on 23 May 2016, a new network to achieve joint global food-security assessments and joint responses to food crises, including those related to phenomena such as El Niño, has been launched by the EU, FAO and WFP. The press release is available here.

The Global Network for Food Insecurity, Risk Reduction and Food Crises Response will pave the way for enhancing the impact of future responses to food crises at the global level by regularly producing, in real time, joint reports based on key analyses and containing timely response options. This will prompt coordination among stakeholders and promote joint planning and joint responses to food crises. In addition, it will improve learning from past crises and increase the level of transparency and availability of crucial analysis of global needs.

The new network and its outputs are public goods, available for everybody. Participation in the network will be broadened to all key stakeholders that can contribute to the analysis and/or to the response. The network’s pilot publication Global analysis of food and nutrition security situation in food crisis hotspots 2016 is the example that a joint analysis is possible. It covers 70 countries affected by a food crisis in 2015, including chronically vulnerable countries at or above Phase 2 of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).