conor elliott

Humanitarian & Development professional

[Global Network Against Food Crises @fightfoodcrises]

📰 @theIPCinfo just released its #Gaza Snapshot: #Famine confirmed and already happening in Gaza governate and expected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis governates by end of September: https://t.co/lDB04efLhY

[Global Network Against Food Crises @fightfoodcrises]

We're thrilled to welcome @GovIE @Agriculture_IE as newest member of the GNAFC to #fightfoodcrises! Press Release: https://t.co/xWfrhds3zv

[SDG2AdvocacyHub @SDG2AdvocacyHub]

@antonioguterres @UN @FAO @fightfoodcrises @IFAD @hadjalahbib @EU_Commission @FoodSystems @WFP @UN_Nutrition @HungryForAct @unicefchief @SUN_Movement @nutritionwin "Ireland's The Great Hunger embedded in Irish people a fear of #hunger and determination for change." – Peter Cleary at #GRFC2025 launch.

Ireland has increased #ODA in recent years, including to humanitarian needs.

"Let us dare to lobby our leaders to do and dream big."

[FAO Director-General QU Dongyu @FAODG]

Deeply concerned that famine conditions are confirmed in Sudan's Zamzam IDP camp. Despite the constraints, @FAO continues to be on the ground and support with life-saving assistance to boost food production to alleviate acute hunger. The people of Sudan can’t be left behind.

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

"Half of the world's hungry people live in conflict affected zones."

Addressing the @UN Security Council, @FAO Deputy Director-General @BethBechdol called for urgent action and innovative solutions to address global food insecurity.

🎧Learn more👉https://t.co/uSJVNPgrSJ

#UNSC

[Global Network Against Food Crises @fightfoodcrises]

📰Happening today at @UN HQ in #NYC

Our partners, @eu_partnerships @fao & @wfp, are hosting a roundtable to examine challenges, opportunities & actions for NY diplomats to help address soaring global acute #foodinsecurity.

Read more🔗https://t.co/yOT77aa2eK

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

6. Kalidasa, who lived in the 5th century A.D., is regarded as the greatest Ancient Indian poet.

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

.@FAONewYork's Conor Elliott, together with @WFP partners, briefed new @EuropeanUnionUN delegates in New York on the work of @fightfoodcrises.

Discussions included importance around issuing timely, consensus-based data to inform policy work & projections of 🌍 food insecurity.

[FAO in Emergencies @FAOemergencies]

In Somalia, almost 3 million livestock have died due to drought since mid–2021.

Saving animals, which rural communities rely on, is imperative and also cost-effective.

We must scale up time-sensitive agri-interventions to save livelihoods and lives.

https://t.co/nmJTLJo9d4

[FAO in Emergencies @FAOemergencies]

Did you know that Yemen produces some of the best honey in the world?

But beekeepers and beekeeping have been affected by years of conflict in the country.

Learn how this @FAO project, funded by the @WorldBank, has helped to restore the livelihoods of Yemeni families.

[FAO Director-General QU Dongyu @FAODG]

Acute food insecurity is rising fast & spreading across the world. Without a large scaled-up humanitarian response that has at its core time-sensitive & life-saving agricultural assistance, the situation will likely worsen in the coming months. #FightFoodCrises #UNGA

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

'Saving the livelihoods of the farmer or the pastoralist means saving their families’ lives today and tomorrow.

This is #resilience building in action. This is disaster risk reduction in action. This is sound #AnticipatoryAction'

~@FAO Deputy DG Laurent Thomas at #UNGA HL event

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

📢 Happening now from #UNGA sidelines 🇺🇳

'Responding to the Urgent Humanitarian Needs in the Horn of Africa'

@FAO's Deputy Director-General Laurent Thomas to speak on why #agriculture must be at core of the humanitarian response 🌾

⏯️ https://t.co/DcJsrAFTGp

[Etienne Peterschmitt @EPeterschmitt]

Meeting with community members at Ina-carays in Burtinle District, Puntland where @FAOSomalia is assisting with emergency water access during drought. They also told me that longer term solutions are needed for their families to cope with such disasters in the future.

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

'Humanitarian emergencies, #FoodInsecurity and #poverty are 📈 the prevalence of #GBV, undermining our efforts to ensure household and national food security and nutrition'

~ @FAONewYork's Conor Elliott at #ECOSOCHAS, on #GBV impacts of food insecurity in #HornofAfrica & #Sahel

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

'Food assistance provided after the worst-case scenario is essential, and saves lives.

But unless = priority is given to boosting local food production & making agriculture + resilient, acute hunger will continue 📈'

~ @FAONewYork's Conor Elliott at #ECOSOCHAS closing session

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

'Between 2016 & 2021 the population in Crisis or worse situations [of food insecurity] 📈 by ~80%, from 108 to 193 million.

72% was driven by conflict; 16% by economic slowdowns/downturns; 12% by #ClimateChange'

~@MaximoTorero at Meeting on Transition from Relief to Development

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

'Rural livelihoods – farming & livestock production – are key centres of gravity.

Yet just 8⃣ % of humanitarian funding to the food security sector is going to emergency agricultural interventions.

2⃣/3⃣ of people, 8⃣ % of funding'

~ @reinpaulsen at #ECOSOCHAS side event

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

'We have witnessed & warned about an ↗️ trajectory of acute #hunger since 2016. In 2021, levels of acute #FoodInsecurity were almost 2X that of 2016. Projections for 2022 are dire & 2023 is likely to see no let up w/out urgent, scaled up action'

~ @reinpaulsen at #ECOSOCHAS

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

'These are predominantly #rural populations being hit by relentless and repeated shocks and crises.

At least 2⃣/3⃣ of those experiencing acute #hunger are in rural areas, making their living from #agriculture'

~ @FAOemergencies Director at #ECOSOCHAS side event