Food security and agriculture

Humane World for Animals India and government partners will build a facility dedicated to disaster preparedness, emergency response and animal protection needs during floods and landslides.

The podcast explains how the dry conditions have forced people to rely on non-traditional food crops for food.

Compounding risks to global food system—ongoing conflicts, the most severe El Niño in decades, global trade disruptions—humanitarian data are disappearing. Budget cuts, shrinking development assistance, and competing priorities erode key streams of data.

Disaster-related crop losses are often underreported, leaving smallholder farmers vulnerable. Combining household surveys, satellite data and emerging AI tools can improve loss estimates, identify affected groups and strengthen agricultural resilience.

Common industry practices put farm animals at high risk during extreme weather. Animal agriculture is a major contributor to this current crisis, but the animals stuck within this industry are also among its most vulnerable victims.

The authors introduce a new framework for subseasonal weather forecasts, MARS+Forecast, which extends MARS yield predictions using ECMWF four-week temperature and precipitation forecasts following the MARS publication date.

The October 2026 GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning report provides an overview of global crop conditions with a focus on regions vulnerable to food insecurity.

World Food Day takes place on 16 October against a backdrop of an intensifying El Niño which is driving significant shifts in rainfall patterns – from drought to deluge – and impacting agriculture, fisheries and food production.

India is using sub-seasonal forecasts to help farmers anticipate rainfall, drought and pest risks, with examples showing how longer-range weather information supports planting, harvesting and more efficient irrigation.

Nearly four years after a peace deal ended the devastating war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, conflict has resumed, threatening stability across the Horn of Africa and overshadowing a catastrophic food crisis.

This study presents a spatial network optimization approach to model extreme drought impacts on Sweden’s food supply chain, revealing that supply losses in the south translate to unmet demand in the north and highlighting new bottlenecks in distribution.

This paper analyzes household survey and meteorological data from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Bangladesh, finding that more accurate weather forecasts reduce crop losses and help farmers adjust labor hiring, especially during extreme weather events.

This research briefing analyzes how the intensifying El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole will heighten drought and inflation risks in Africa by 2026/27, impacting food prices and regional economies; it recommends robust disaster risk management measures.

Modelling by IFPRI and KIPPRA finds that El Niño-driven drought and higher fuel and fertilizer prices could cost Kenya up to 1.5 per cent of GDP in 2026, pushing 756,000 more people into poverty and 4.9 million into undernourishment.

This study explores how Japanese farmers adapt to climate change-related crises through crisis management. Findings indicate that Japanese farmers have a relatively moderate to high perception of climate change, but some farmers exhibit adaptive behavior.

This study develops a meso-level parametric flood and drought insurance model for smallholder farmers and SMEs in Belize and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, leveraging blockchain to automate payouts, enhance resilience, and strengthen rural livelihoods.

FAO’s benchmark measure of world food commodity prices increased in September, due mostly to transportation disruptions and weather concerns that constrained availability as well as to higher quotations for crop-based commodity groups.

For Australian farmers, frost risk is a growing concern. This is particularly true as the strengthening El Niño threatens to bring increasingly fierce and frequent frosts to farming regions.

Indigenous communities have lived with changes to the climate for centuries. Their adaptations over those many years are based on their close observation of weathe and seasonal change, and they have been refined through generations of learning.

This bulletin examines how communities in Somalia are coping with a “double shock” drought, highlighting failing coping strategies, declining trust in official warnings, reduced aid, and the importance of supporting community-led responses.

Traditional transhumance and extensive grazing can reduce wildfire risk in southern Europe by removing dry vegetation, creating natural firebreaks and maintaining biodiversity, but declining pastoralism and weak incentives threaten the practice.

Stretching across much of eastern England, the Fens produce a third of the country’s vegetables and support tens of thousands of jobs. Yet around 33% of the region lies below average sea level, while 87% is below the highest spring tides

Four years after Jammu and Kashmir witnessed its first major outbreak of LSD, it has resurfaced in the Union Territory, with fresh cases reported from Central Kashmir and authorities stepping up surveillance, vaccination, and veterinary intervention.

The brief compiles information from various sources to provide an updated, consolidated picture and monitoring of El Niño's effects on global food security.

With El Niño threatening to disrupt upcoming rainfall and agricultural seasons, the LRCS activated its EAP for drought and begin implementing anticipatory actions to support the most vulnerable households. Heightened food insecurity is the main concern.

This report documents an integrated DRR field mission conducted by the GRMI in Katcha Ward, Niger State, on 10 July 2026. The mission combined agricultural support with geospatial flood risk assessment to better understand the exposure of rice farmers.

This paper develops an Adaptive AI-Enabled Drought Risk Reduction Framework, showing how AI can improve drought governance, water allocation and anticipatory decision-making when supported by trusted institutions and reliable data.

Malawi faces significant economic and food security risks from overlapping El Niño impacts and Iran war fuel and fertilizer price shocks, a modeling exercise shows.

WFP is scaling up anticipatory action across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help vulnerable communities prepare for El Niño-linked droughts, floods and hunger through cash assistance, early warnings, farming support and resilience measures.

They explore the idea of appliances as “microinfrastructure”—from fans and air conditioners that reduce heat risk to refrigeration, cold storage, and solar water pumps that support food security and livelihoods.

Sustained high temperatures may crimp yields while high humidity could raise risks of crop diseases

Estimates suggest drop in production with vineyards also concerned ‘smoke taint’ from wildfires may affect quality.

In some regions of the world, the poorest people may spend about 50 percent of their income on food, while the richest spend about 5 percent.

The September 2026 GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning report provides an overview of global crop conditions with a focus on regions vulnerable to food insecurity.

Saltwater isn’t something most people associate with English farmland. But in parts of eastern England, it’s becoming a growing problem, and not just for crops, but for farm incomes too.

This scoping review maps peer-reviewed evidence on drought adaptation in the SADC region, which exhibits an observed downward trend in precipitation, making it a valuable case to study diverse approaches to managing changing risk.

Study finds extreme high ocean temperatures and low productivity, when combined, significantly increase the risk of fisheries declines worldwide. Risks are projected to intensify by mid-century, highlighting the need for adaptive fisheries management.

WFP’s community-supported initiative is restoring degraded ecosystems in five sub-Saharan African countries – building food security, incomes and bonds in the process.

South Asia’s small-scale farmers are facing mounting climate risks, but building resilience requires more than absorbing shocks—it demands adaptation, stronger institutions, finance and market access.

France is temporarily relaxing strict production rules for several iconic cheeses as drought and record heat leave pastures severely depleted.

The breadbaskets of the world are getting pummeled by drone strikes and devilish weather, nudging prices higher amid already soaring food costs in the wake of the Iran war.

World Bank assessment of climate risks to Madagascar’s fisheries, marine ecosystems and coastal communities, with recommendations for adaptation and resilience.

UK imports 80% of their fruit and 47% of their veg. Worsening climate means this reliance on imports poses a threat to their food and nutrition security. This report outlines opportunities to boost domestic production, resilience and nutrition security.

A strengthening El Niño could become one of the strongest on record, threatening food security for millions through 2027. WFP is scaling anticipatory action to reduce hunger risks from droughts, floods and climate-related shocks.

The report examines how climate change is expected to affect fisheries, marine ecosystems, and coastal communities in the Comoros through a combination of biophysical, economic, and social analyses.

This document examines projected changes in the severity and extent of agricultural drought across global croplands, addressing the challenges of consistently defining moisture deficits across different climatic zones.

A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.