FAO and EU Partnership for Decision of Food Security Issues in Crisis Situations and Natural Disasters

Abstract

The paper addresses FAO’s main principles and strategy for responding to emergency and crises situations in the field of food security and agriculture. The organization carries out measures for early warning and forecasting of natural disasters and conflicts, which can seriously complicate food security in crisis areas of the world. Active work is carried out to forecast emergencies, as well as to assess risks for individual countries. Particular attention is paid to the new EU strategy to strengthen the “resilience” of vulnerable states and societies under the pressure of humanitarian, climatic and military crises. The partnership between FAO and the EU is based on the integration of conceptual approaches to emergency assistance. Emphasis is placed on early forecasting of crisis situations and helping to restore the socio-economic potential of affected countries and their further development. Such interaction is based on the exchange of data and the exchange of technical tools, as well as on financing mechanisms for emergency assistance. FAO is a politically neutral international organization with a number of comparative advantages. The EU uses partnership with it as an effective tool not only for providing emergency assistance and development assistance, but also for indirectly projecting its interests in various regions of the world.