Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers
28 January 2016 Food
Southern Africa is facing the threat of extensive crop failures this year as a result of record low rainfall in a region in which ...
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28 January 2016 Food
Southern Africa is facing the threat of extensive crop failures this year as a result of record low rainfall in a region in which ...
23 December 2015
El Niño is the largely unwanted Christmas gift – a warming of the tropical Pacific causing drought and floods that will peak at the end of this mon...
4 December 2015 Food
Close to 29 million people in southern Africa are already facing food shortages as a result of this season’s poor harvest, but worse could be on th...
27 March 2015 Health
A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear:...
24 February 2015 Health
The World Health Organization says the number of new Ebola cases per week rose twice this month for the first time since December...
13 February 2015 Aid and Policy
This week was a fanfare for celebrity humanitarians: Forest Whitaker ...
16 January 2015 Food
Be it laterite, loam, peat or clay, soil is life...
7 November 2014 Migration
It is now 60 years since stateless people received recognition in international law, and the UN has two conventions (1954 and 1961) dedicated to th...
15 September 2014 Solutions and Innovations
Smallholder farmers, who hold over 80 percent of all farms in sub-Saharan Africa, are struggling to adapt to rapidly rising temperature and erratic...
7 July 2014 Food
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched an urgent appeal to address a funding shortfall that has already res...