Food security and agriculture

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.

For many foodborne diseases, the environment plays an important role in transmission. As climate change increasingly affects global temperatures and weather events, the risks of transmission will increase.

Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides for farmworkers, and that the problem is poised to grow as the global climate warms.

When most people picture British farming, they probably imagine fields of wheat, potatoes or vegetables stretching across the countryside. But some of the food on supermarket shelves is produced in environments that look very different.

This Roadmap, developed with input from over 150 experts through the AFN Network+ (UK Agri-Food for Net Zero Network+), offers practical pathways to transform UK's food system by 2050.

This study describes the scope of Climate-Smart Agriculture adoption, farmers’ interest in these technologies, and the broader enabling environment, including the training and financial incentives needed to support adoption in Uzbekistan.

The future of agriculture lies in balancing climate exposure and control costs. Fields, greenhouses and vertical farms will each play a role, supported by improved water management, energy efficiency and greater climate resilience.

The UK is in the grip of a severe drought.. The drought’s length and severity are affecting UK agriculture and food production.

This brief is about a project that was implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) to help smallholder farmers recover from the 2023/24 El Niño-induced drought in Zambia.

Colombian government has contracted five parametric agricultural insurance policies covering 14,402 smallholder farmers, benefitting up to 41,600 people across their households in five departments for up to US$20.14 million in coverage.

As NHS told to prepare for extreme weather, strain also felt in other areas including transport and farming.

When wildfire smoke blanketed northern Michigan skies last month, Kasey Wierzba thought the vineyard at Shady Lane Cellars in Suttons Bay looked like a different planet.

For millions of workers across the region, acquiring that rice bowl is becoming increasingly difficult, putting people’s health at risk.

Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue.

Rice is a staple food for more than half of the world’s population, but estimates of how climate change will affect production vary widely.

Heat, drought, heavy rain and late frosts are taking a toll on German farmers. They increasingly respond with adapted varieties, new crops, modern breeding techniques and modified farming methods.

Much of England is now officially in drought. Reservoir levels are being closely monitored by water companies, while farmers are reporting dry soils and poor crop conditions.

The European summer of 2026 has so far been characterised by exceptional heat and widespread dryness.