Over 20 million people need food aid in East Africa: U.N
Drought and war in eastern Africa have left more than 20 million people in desperate need of emergency food aid, the United Nations said on Tuesday. “The situation is very worrying due to expected crop...
View ArticleImproved pastures revive Kenya’s livestock exports
Exporters of live animals to Mauritius are preparing to resume the business following the recent rainfall that has improved pasture in Coast province. The growing demand for live Kenyan animals in...
View ArticlePerry: Let’s celebrate the eradication of rinderpest this year, but let’s not...
Brian Perry, a former scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and a continuing collaborator with ILRI, now a visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, writes a column,...
View ArticleWashington Post coverage of Africa’s drought/hunger crisis–From advice on...
Return to traditional agricultural approaches—William G Mosley A recent op-ed in the Washington Post, on the topic of the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, argues that ‘while reactions of grave...
View ArticleEmergency hunger update for Horn of Africa as of 29 July 2011
Updated information as of 29 July 2011 by the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the drought in the Horn of Africa...
View ArticleWe had effective famine early warning systems in place in the Horn: So what...
Village scene in Gash-Barka, a region of Eritrea considered a breadbasket and with some 3.5 million head of livestock (photo on Flickr by Charles Fred). Scientist Chris Funk, who is part of a Climate...
View Article‘Nothing works as well as pastoralism in dryland areas’–Simon Levine, ODI
Nine-year-old livestock herder near Kitengela town, outside Nairobi, at the height of the 2008–2009 drought in this region; dryland peoples in East Africa are both restricted and marginalized (photo...
View ArticleWhere people are starving, and where they are not, reflects more on African...
The landscape of Tigray, Ethiopia, which was the centre of famine in that country 25 years ago but is now managing to remain food secure due to years of agricultural and other investments (photo on...
View ArticleHunger in Sahel worsens as ‘lean season’ begins: ‘The worst is yet to come’
Football legend Raul Gonzalez, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), learns while speaking to goat herders in Chad that protecting people’s livestock is...
View ArticleAfrican drylands: Livestock demand and supply
Village women and livestock in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). ‘A key function of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is to estimate food security across the world. These...
View ArticleNew analyses highlight the extent of livestock production in Africa’s drylands
Typical long-horned goats of Abergelle Amhara, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). ‘Quantitative information on the importance of livestock systems in African drylands is scarce. A new...
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