Reports

Over 142,000 people in ten countries will benefit; includes emergency responses in South Sudan and northern Nigeria Over 142,000 people in ten countries will benefit from fourteen projects totaling $3.7 committed by Canadian Foodgrains Bank in November. The…

28 April 2015, Rome - Southern Africa's maize harvest is expected to shrink this year by some 26 percent compared with 2014's bumper crop, a situation that could trigger food price increases and adversely affect recent…

Lesotho Emergency and Resilience Programme (ERP), implemented by FAO and the Government of Lesotho since 2012, has been retained as Finalist in the “Expo Milano 2015 Call for Best Sustainable Development Practices (BSDP)”. The BSDP is…

09/01/2015 Recently, farmers in Lesotho have been consistently obtaining low yields from their staple crops. This has affected food production as well as considerably reducing incomes. The causes of these low crop yields are diverse and include low…

AMOUNT: EUR 7 260 000 0 . Major changes since last version of HIP Additional needs have arisen in the Indian Ocean for supporting the creation of a network of humanitarian teams in four countries (Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros…

Highlights Resilience refers to the ability of a system, communities and households to endure stresses and shocks. Southern Africa as a region is characterized by high levels of vulnerability. Recent momentum around the resilience building agenda in Lesotho and…

In response to the 2012 food insecurity crisis in Lesotho, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) designed a three-year cycle programme to assist…

NATIONAL FOOD AVAILABILITY Lesotho’s main food crops produced include maize, sorghum (for food and beer), and wheat. Maize and sorghum are grown throughout the country in summer (October to April), with the most productive areas in the…

(Extract) RECENT FOOD SECURITY CRISES The Lesotho vulnerability assessment and analysis (VAA) committee, which coordinates the VAA information system was established in 2001/02 at the height of the southern Africa regional food crisis. This was in order to…

The British Red Cross provided help to an emergency appeal in Lesotho, where nearly three quarters of a million people were in desperate need of food. Faced with a chronic food shortage affecting more than 725,000 people,…