In-depth: Food and nutrition crisis in Niger and the Western Sahel

SAHEL: Chronic nutrition problems

Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN

Severely malnourished children in Tahoua, Niger, with a packet of local Plumpy'nut

DAKAR, 27 July 2010 (IRIN) -

NIGER: Local Plumpy’nut production soars with demand

NIGER: A crisis, not (yet) a catastrophe

BURKINA FASO: Vital role for local food

NIGER: Children struggle to reach feeding programmes

NIGER: Acute child malnutrition increases by 42%

MALI: Feeding the children not 'woman's work' *

WEST AFRICA: Rice versus vegetables

NIGER: Health centres bracing for malnutrition surge

NIGER: Experts explain why malnutrition is recurrent

MALI: The paradox of plenty

MALI: Missing egg in food security basket

GLOBAL: The link between undernutrition and climate change

MAURITANIA: Malnutrition has no season in Nouakchott

MALI: Mentors to boost breastfeeding

AFRICA: Fighting the "double whammy" of obesity and hunger

BURKINA FASO: Farming cuts back hunger-watch

WEST AFRICA: The hour-window to find the breast

NIGER: Passing along hunger but little milk

BURKINA FASO: The path to mother's milk is paved with kola nuts

Analysis: Breast not always seen as best in Burkina Faso

Food and nutrition crisis in Niger and the Western Sahel

Burkina Faso

Hunger stings worse in the city

The path to mother's milk is paved with kola nuts

Analysis: Breast not always seen as best in Burkina Faso

Chad

Moving the aid spotlight west

Stranded in the shallow end

What's happening in the north?

Hungry season sets in early

Malnutrition in east persists into harvest season

Acute malnutrition high in eastern town

Green wall starts to grow

Niger

Getting food in by truck, boat, camel and cart

Aid caravan for the east

Cash to fill the food gap?

Beyond the crisis in Niger

More needed to avoid catastrophe

Food pressures spread north

Mali

Cured meat as a cure

Doctors and vets work together in north

Pockets of extreme vulnerability persist

Kidnap threat throws spotlight on local aid staff

More aid needed for the north

Nigeria

Gearing up to fight food shortages

Sahel food crisis Q & A

HOW TO: Prevent the Sahel's next food crisis

SAHEL: Short of cash rather than food

Analysis: What is a famine?

SAHEL: Backgrounder on the Sahel, West Africa’s poorest region

Links & Resources

ReliefWeb
Permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel (CILSS, in French)
The Secretary-General's High-Level Task Force
Famine Early Warning Systems Network
Global Information and Early Warning System

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