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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 »