By José
Luis FERNANDEZ
Senior Regional Emergency Coordinator
FAO’s Sub-regional Emergency and Rehabilitation Office - West Africa/Sahel
FAO’s Sub-regional Emergency and Rehabilitation Office - West Africa/Sahel
FAO
Representative Senegal a.i.
The frequency, complexity and scale of crises affecting food and
agriculture make it increasingly difficult for smallholder producers to cope
and recover each time. That is why disaster risk reduction and resilience –
from protecting and strengthening sustainable livelihood systems to bolstering
monitoring and early warning to developing institutional capacity to manage risks – figure so
prominently in FAO’s strategies and programmes. To build a world without hunger, we
need to ensure that vulnerable farmers, fishers, foresters and other at-risk
groups are better able to withstand and bounce back from these shocks so they
can provide for themselves and their families.
FAO’s first priority is to help crisis-affected farming families – many of whom have lost all of their productive assets such as seeds and livestock – produce their own food and rebuild their lives and livelihoods as quickly as possible. At the same time, FAO’s emergency assistance increasingly supports and feeds into longer-term efforts to reduce risks due to multiple hazards.
Please visit our website www.fao.org/crisis/sahel/the-sahel-crisis/en/
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