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A Climate in Crisis: How climate change is making drought and humanitarian disaster worse in East Africa

27/04/2017

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Nearly eleven million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are dangerously hungry and in need of humanitarian assistance. The worst drought-affected areas in Somalia are on the brink of famine. There is growing scientific analysis suggesting that the impacts of current and recent droughts in East Africa are likely to have been aggravated by climate […]

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Briefing note

Our Seeds: Lessons from the drought. Voices of farmers in Zimbabwe

15/12/2016

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Zimbabwean smallholder farmers consider seed security to be an issue of national security. For them, access to the right seeds at the right time, and for the right price, is critical to being able to produce enough food to eat in the face of growing climate disruption. Farmer seed systems and community seed banks provide […]

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Research report

Consolidated Gender Analysis for the Ethiopian Drought Response

16/09/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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This report is the first to be published by the project ‘Institutionalising Gender in Emergencies’, which is funded by the European Community Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) and implemented by Oxfam in Dominican Republic, Pakistan, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It is a gender analysis developed in collaboration with CARE Ethiopia and combines a desk review with […]

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Issue briefing

What Will Become of Us? Voices from around the world on drought and El Nino

13/04/2016

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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About 60 million people across Southern Africa and the Horn, Central America, and the Pacific face worsening hunger and poverty due to droughts and crop failures in 2014-15 that have been exacerbated by the El Nino weather system in 2015-16. This number is likely to rise. The international response is working, but much more is […]

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Briefing note

El Nino in Ethiopia: Programme observations on the impact of the Ethiopia drought and recommendations for action

24/02/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Ethiopia is facing a massive drought and food insecurity crisis. The impact of failed rains and droughts have been worsened by the 2015 El Nino, which itself has been supercharged by climate change. Urgent humanitarian action is needed to support millions of people who have lost food, water and livelihoods. And long-term investment is needed […]

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Issue briefing

El Nino Key Messages: Urgent action now can prevent major suffering and loss

20/11/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of poor and vulnerable people face hunger and poverty this year and next because of record global temperatures, droughts and erratic rains in 2014 and 2015, followed by the development of possibly the most powerful El Niño on record. This briefing makes the case to urgently scale up humanitarian response in countries already in […]

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Media briefing

Entering Uncharted Waters: El Nino and the threat to food security

01/10/2015

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of poor people in Southern Africa, Asia and Central America face hunger and poverty this year and next because of droughts and erratic rains as global temperatures reach new records, and because of the onset of a powerful El Nino – the climate phenomenon that develops in the tropical Pacific and brings extreme weather […]

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A Climate in Crisis: How climate change is making drought and humanitarian disaster worse in East Africa

Our Seeds: Lessons from the drought. Voices of farmers in Zimbabwe

Consolidated Gender Analysis for the Ethiopian Drought Response

What Will Become of Us? Voices from around the world on drought and El Nino

El Nino in Ethiopia: Programme observations on the impact of the Ethiopia drought and recommendations for action

El Nino Key Messages: Urgent action now can prevent major suffering and loss

Entering Uncharted Waters: El Nino and the threat to food security