Sahel farmers finding ways to reclaim the desert.
'Act Fast to Save Millions in West Africa'
While indicators point to a food crisis for the region in 2010, millions of lives can be saved if role players scale-up co-ordinate their efforts, according to analysts.-
West Africa: Food Crisis Grows in the Sahel
African Arguments, 22 December 2011
Just two years after the Sahel faced a major food crisis, leaving an estimated seven million people in need of food aid in Niger and Chad, the alarm bell has sounded again. Read more »
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West Africa: Act Fast to Save Millions in the Region - Oxfam
RNW Africa, 12 December 2011
Millions of people in West Africa can only be saved from a major food crisis next year if aid preparations are scaled up, Oxfam warned Monday. Read more »
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West Africa: Millions at Risk of Serious Food Crisis Without Early Action
Oxfam, 12 December 2011
Millions of people in West Africa could be protected from a serious food crisis if preparations are scaled up across West Africa, Oxfam said today. With early indicators pointing… Read more »
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Africa: Food Crisis Unfolds in Sahel
Chatham House, 9 December 2011
East Africa's food crisis continues and a second is now unfolding to the West, in the Sahel, that should start hitting the headlines in spring next year. Read more »
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Africa: Artists and Activists Call for Social Media Action to End Continent's Famines
Oxfam, 9 December 2011
African singers, TV personalities, activists and citizens have come together today to call on people across Africa to use social media this weekend in a day of action to end hunger… Read more »
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West Africa: UNICEF Warns of Impending Child Nutrition Crisis in Africa's Sahel Region
UN News, 9 December 2011
More than a million children in the Sahel region of West Africa are at risk of severe and life-threatening malnutrition over the coming year as a result of ongoing food shortages,… Read more »
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West Africa: UNICEF Warns of Looming Children's Crisis in the Sahel
Unicef, 9 December 2011
Agency prepares for major malnutrition intervention across eight countries in 2012 Read more »
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West Africa: Fighting Insecurity in the Western Sahel
African Arguments, 8 December 2011
A discussion at Chatham House, London on Thursday 9th December: Read more »
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West Africa: UN Sounds Alarm Over Growing Hunger in the Sahel
AlertNet, 9 December 2011
Millions of people in Africa's Sahel region need urgent help to cope with food shortages brought on by erratic rainfall and drought, and at least 1 million children in the area… Read more »
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Africa: At Least Five Million in Sahel Facing Food Shortages - UN
RNW Africa, 8 December 2011
Meagre rains and diminished harvests have left between five and seven million people in Africa's Sahel region facing food shortages, the United Nation's World Food Programme said… Read more »
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Growing Instability in the Western Sahel, Experiences and Responses
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Speakers will offer their different perspectives on this growing, though little understood threat to Africa and Europe, as well as to the Middle ... see more »
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8 December 2011
Growing Instability in the Western Sahel, Experiences and Responses
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- Chatham House
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Speakers share their insights on the current political and security situation in the Western Sahel, and discuss the transnational challenges facing ... see more »
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West Africa: Study Reveals Impact of Climate Change in Livelihoods in Sahel
UN News, 5 December 2011
Climate change is already having an impact in the livelihoods of millions of people in the Sahel and West Africa, according to a new United Nations study released today, which… Read more »
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West Africa: Changes in Climate Trends Impacting Livelihoods and Food Security in the Sahel and West Africa
UNEP, 5 December 2011
Joint study calls for major investments in climate change adaptation to reduce the risk of conflict and forced migration Read more »
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West Africa: Five Steps to Avert a Food Crisis
AlertNet, 25 November 2011
Aid groups have warned that a food emergency is looming in West Africa after erratic rainfall, drought and insect infestations decimated crops in the region's arid Sahel belt,… Read more »
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West Africa: Livelihood Security - Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in the Sahel
UNEP, 2 December 2011
New evidence of changing climate trends in the Sahel and West Africa and their potentially profound implications for food security and regional stability will be released next week… Read more »
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Senegal: Prospects and Pitfalls Along a Great Green Wall
UNIRIN, 29 November 2011
Former goat-herder Samba Ba proudly points to a row of metre-high acacia trees growing amid the fine grasses that are the only other vegetation in this part of northern Senegal's… Read more »
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West Africa: Learning Lessons From the Past Is Key to Preventing Next Food Crisis in the Sahel
Oxfam, 15 November 2011
The Sahel Working Group, a consortium of International NGOs, today launched a report evaluating the responses to the 2005 and 2010 food crises in the region, concluding that the… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: "Blue Revolution" Needed to Boost Dry-Season Harvest
UNIRIN, 17 November 2011
The Burkina Faso government is attempting for the first time to implement a nationwide dry-season agricultural campaign to counteract possible food insecurity in areas that… Read more »
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Ghana: Agra Pilots Market Access, Post-Harvest Services to Empower BA Farmers
Public Agenda, 14 November 2011
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has launched a pilot project, called Development of Market Access and Post-Harvest Services for Small Holder Farmers (D-MAPS)… Read more »
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West Africa: Sahel the Danger Zone for Food Insecurity
UNIRIN, 27 October 2011
Erratic rains and high imported rice and wheat prices against a backdrop of chronic food insecurity and malnutrition in parts of the Sahel, will leave millions of people at risk of… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: The Man Who Stopped the Desert
IPS, 19 October 2011
Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from Burkina Faso, is known as the "man who stopped the desert." But when he first tried to save his arid land from desertification by planting… Read more »
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West Africa: Looking to the Sahel for Lessons in Pushing Back Deserts
IPS, 17 October 2011
Nearly all our food comes from the Earth's limited food-producing lands, but those lands continue to be degraded, guaranteeing far higher food prices and less food in the future,… Read more »
