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Study provides new insights on drought predictions in East Africa
February 13, 2013 Editor 0
Research may also help determine effects of global warming in the region With more than 40 million people living under exceptional drought conditions in East Africa, the ability to make accurate predictions of drought has never been more important. In the aftermath of widespread famine and a humanitarian crisis caused by the 2010-2011 drought in […]
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Africa Must Wake Up to the Reality That Hunger is Now a National Security Issue
August 16, 2012 Editor 0
“The tools available to India in the 1960s are not sufficient to address the challenges that African agriculture now faces. These include a rapidly-growing population, productivity loss due to ecological disruption, environmental decay, droughts, climate change, and conflict. Biotechnology offers additional tools that can help Africa address some of these challenges. It is another moment […]
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W/Video Via ViewChange, Oxfam: This World Food Day, Making it Africa’s Last Famine
October 16, 2011 Editor 0
Authored by: ViewChange LinkTV The author, David Satterthwaite, is Oxfam America’s head of micro-insurance and risk management and founder of MicroCapital.org. Despite the current severe drought in East Africa and resultant famine in Somalia, northern Ethiopia has thus far escaped this year’s drought. The region has, however, been devastated by lack of rainfall in the […]
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Investments in pastoralism offer best hope for combating droughts in Africa’s drylands
September 14, 2011 Editor 0
As hunger spreads among more than 12 million people in the Horn of Africa, a study by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) of the response to Kenya’s last devastating drought, in 2008-2009, finds that investments aimed at increasing the mobility of livestock herders – a way of life often viewed as “backward” despite being […]
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