🚨 Foot-and-mouth disease is escalating across Southern Africa, threatening food security & the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers.
@FAO urges immediate action to protect livestock systems & build #resilience.
Read more👇 https://t.co/W4GERrdsnT
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How can #AnticipatoryAction truly be locally led?
Join our #HNPW2026 session “Practical Pathways to Locally Led Anticipatory Action” with the Southern Africa Regional Anticipatory Action Working Group.
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1/5 🌍 Southern Africa’s After-Action Review on #AnticipatoryAction concluded with a clear roadmap:
🔗integrated early warning, pre-arranged financing 💰, coordinated triggers to protect lives and livelihoods before crises hit.🌱
Read more 📖: https://t.co/UMMxnaSVTj
Pleased to have facilitated the technical training for national experts from Zambia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Disaster Management & Mitigation Unit, Fisheries & Livestock, National Statistics Agency and more on the application of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Damage & Loss methodology. This initiative will strengthen Zambia’s agriculture resilience, support data-driven damage assessment and enable access to emerging climate finance such as the Loss and Damage Fund.
Read more: https://t.co/uYRNQto1fi
#ClimateResilience #Agriculture #Zambia
From classrooms to farms in Thohoyandou 🇿🇦: @FAO and @UNIVEN launch a results-oriented partnership—skills for students & extension officers, open data for faster decisions, and climate-smart practices that boost yields and resilience.
Full story ⤵️
https://t.co/gM0zMUwxiD
At the opening of the GIS & KoBo Toolbox training today, I underlined that early warning saves lives.
For FAO and Zimbabwe, building these skills means faster responses and stronger food security when disasters threaten. @FAOemergencies#EarlyWarningEarlyAction#Resilience
📊For the next 5 days Zimbabwe’s frontline officers will be learning to map hazards in real-time using GIS & KoBo Toolbox – turning early warnings into life-saving action. #EarlyWarningEarlyAction#FAO
Full story: 🔗👉https://t.co/3IeLJ5Gepl
🌾Through the @eu_echo funded project,
@FAO has supported 🇿🇼Zimbabwe in:
👉strengthening early warning systems
👉defining triggers
👉mainstreaming #AnticipatoryAction into local governance
🎯protecting vulnerable communities before disaster strikes 🏜️🏞️
#ResilienceBuilding🧠📚
"Stepping up anticipatory action: From information to intervention, @FAO, @WFP & @ifrc with @eu_echo funding are reimagining how communities prepare & respond to climate challenges. 🌍
Collaboration is our strength to create comprehensive disaster🛡️ #Resilience strategies"
Today is a good day to do something positive. Let's bless these children. Education of kids knows no ZANU PF nor CCC. Let's do something positive together. https://t.co/zzhyeRYe5M
@ladySofiaD Tenders in public domain often lack geo-fencing, competition is tough. My take: Meet requirements, subscribe to tender sites, be competitive!
Advocate for geo-locked tenders (Risk: benefits bigger economies, disadvantaging worthy competitors from smaller towns or rural areas).