agricultural relief and rehabilitation

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Food and Agriculture in Emergencies
Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation
Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations
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Why agriculture in emergencies?
Agriculture core survival strategy for rural
poor addresses key humanitarian need - food
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Why agriculture in emergencies?
To protect and bolster self-reliance, reduce need
for relief and harmful coping strategies e.g.
selling assets, forced migration, sex-working
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Mandate and comparative advantage
Exceptional external assistance in cooperation
with UN agencies, NGOs, governments, donors

• Situation and response analysis (needs
  assessments) and monitoring of food security
• Formulation of strategies and programmes
• Lead for agriculture sector or co-leader of food
  security or livelihoods clusters - coordination,
  standard bearing, and technical assistance to
  optimize impact of humanitarian and development
  actors
• Managing programmes, reducing donors transaction
  costs, and assuring quality and sustainability

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Diverse interventions

• Protecting and restoring food production and
  livelihoods of farmers, herders and fishers

• Spot repair of water control infrastructure
• Supporting resolution of conflict over access to
  land and other natural resources
• Capacity building and training

Rwanda

• Emergency coordination units
• Food security information
• Replacing seeds, tools, other lost productive
  assets
• Protecting livestock
• Controlling pests
• Improving nutrition

Foot and Mouth Southern Africa
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Global operations

• US 470 million in current operations
• Concentrated in 35 countries experiencing food
  emergencies
• 40 of total FAO field programme

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Major contributions, 2007Up to end of April
Total funding US101 million
US million
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Global appeal 2007-08

• amount requested 3.3 million, 5 of total
• Sectoral standards reviewed, consolidated or
  developed and disseminated to avoid doing harm,
  promoting quality, optimizing outcomes
• Improving response through better coordination
  and closer collaboration
• mapping global capacities and expertise,
  developing surge capacity, training, capacity
  building, technical backstopping
• formalising operational arrangements such as
  standby agreements and rosters

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Snapshot of relevant activities

• Sector but FAOs work consistent with cluster
  approach
• many NGOs direct and indirect partners
• coordination - who, what, where, how
• standard bearing
• technical advice
• development of tools
• monitoring and dissemination of food security
  information

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Sustainability of agency capacity

• development of tools such as livelihood
  assessment tool kit (LATK) and integrated food
  security and humanitarian phase classification
  (IPC) is building capacity in FAO
• training packages for LATK and IPC being
  developed for FAO and partners
• training underway of FAO country teams in
  emergency response role
• expanding country level outreach of global early
  warning systems
• roll out of integrated food security and
  humanitarian phase classification (IPC) in Horn
  of Africa, Great Lakes, West Africa regions

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Global appeal designed to enhance agency capacity

• global appeal enhancing capacity by supporting
  development and outreach of standards and
  partnership agreements
• nearly all FAOs country level activity funded by
  voluntary contributions as well as management of
  emops and incremental normative work for
  emergencies
• operationalization sustained by country level and
  bi-lateral appeals, training and uptake by
  partners of standards and contributions to tools

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Allocation of resources in response to global
appeal

• FAO will manage use of resources for hosting of
  meetings, seminars, workshops, development of
  standards and agreements
• Investment is for benefit of all partners and
  target groups to avoid doing no harm, raise
  standards and coherence, and optimize relevance,
  efficiency and outcomes