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Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers

28 January 2016

Southern Africa is facing the threat of extensive crop failures this year as a result of record low rainfall in a region in which 29 million people already don't have reliable access to enough affordable and nutritious food. “With little...

Analysis

Unwanted: El Niño and Africa in 2016
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...
Feature

Southern Africa's food crisis
4 December 2015
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...

Killing us softly
27 March 2015 Analysis
Three words of advice for WHO Africa's new chief
24 February 2015 Analysis
Who celebrity advocates are really targeting. And it’s not you.
13 February 2015 Analysis

Feature

Nice and dirty – the importance of soil
16 January 2015
Be it laterite, loam, peat or clay, soil is life. It's the foundation of food security, and so the UN has declared 2015 as the...
Analysis

An ambitious plan to end statelessness
7 November 2014
It is now 60 years since stateless people received recognition in international law, and the UN has two conventions (1954 and 1961) dedicated to their...
Feature

Boosting Africa’s food production
15 September 2014
Smallholder farmers, who hold over 80 percent of all farms in sub-Saharan Africa, are struggling to adapt to rapidly rising temperature and erratic rains, according...
Analysis

New thinking needed on aid for refugees
7 July 2014
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched an urgent appeal to address a funding shortfall that has already resulted...
News

Tsetse fly science could save lives
28 May 2014
Scientists have welcomed the development of genome sequence data on the tsetse fly, the vector responsible for the transmission of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), commonly...
Analysis

Climate change, science and tradition
23 May 2014
In the latest of several partnerships between tradition and modern science aimed at improving resilience to climate change, pastoralists and meteorologists in Tanzania are working...