Download or read book Famine Early Warning Systems During Conflict written by Robert Messerle and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: Over 900 million people were suffering from hunger in 2010 and in December the United Nations basic food price index reached a new record. The resulting food insecurity is often of chronic nature but may be temporally increased due to events like draughts, floods or conflicts. To enable timely and adequate response it is important to identify and forecast the most urgent arising food security crises where extensive international aid is needed. For this purpose there exist several food security early warning systems. They track the status of food supply, food access, food utilization and food stability to monitor where a crisis is impending. While a wide range of production indicators covers the supply side, other pillars are lacking behind. Therefore new vulnerability and health indicators are developed for the integration into early warning systems. This paper tries to draw attention to a partially neglected area in the intent to improve food security early warning systems - the link of food insecurity and conflict.
Download or read book Preventive Measures written by John L. Davies and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1998-09-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening regional security and requiring major inputs of humanitarian assistance. They also may pose long-term and costly challenges of rebuilding shattered governments and societies. A vital policy question is whether failures can be diagnosed far enough in advance to facilitate effective international efforts at prevention or peaceful transformation. This volume of original essays examines crisis early warning factors at different levels, in different settings, and judges their effectiveness according to various models. Top contributors offer answers along with analyses as they move from early warning to early response in their policy recommendations.
Download or read book Famine Early Warning Systems written by Peter Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to see famines coming, to be prepared and to save possibly hundreds of thousands of lives? Or is this the wrong question? A famine is not a single natural catastrophe: it has different stages. Many societies have sophisticated strategies for coping – but these are becoming dramatically limited. Famine Early Warning System is about the people who are caught up in the process of famine. Peter Walker looks at how they perceive their predicament and what they do to avert mass starvation: and at what genuinely useful help can be offered in order to prevent irreversible disaster. Originally published in 1989
Download or read book Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data written by Molly E. Brown and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the interdisciplinary work of USAID's Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET) and its influence on methodological and development policies in the US. This book describes FEWS NET's systems, methods and presents several illustrative case studies that will demonstrate the integration of both physical and social science disciplines in its work. The aim of this book is to bring the work of USAID's Famine Early warning System Network into the public domain.
Download or read book Famine Conflict and Response written by Frederick C. Cuny and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A practical guide to underlying causes and immediate, lasting solutions for famine * Explains efficient use of resources in a crisis * Written by a well-known disaster relief practitioner and humanitarian Fred Cuny adopts an economic approach to wartime famine that is still considered innovative and challenging by field experts. His international fieldwork in both natural and man-made disasters is visionary and his approach to famine pragmatic. This book focuses on counter-famine measures revolving around people’s livelihoods, giving humanitarian relief workers a more permanent solution to world hunger.
Download or read book Under the Weather written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-06-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's technology, some hope that it will be possible to build models for predicting the emergence and spread of many infectious diseases based on climate and weather forecasts. However, separating the effects of climate from other effects presents a tremendous scientific challenge. Can we use climate and weather forecasts to predict infectious disease outbreaks? Can the field of public health advance from "surveillance and response" to "prediction and prevention?" And perhaps the most important question of all: Can we predict how global warming will affect the emergence and transmission of infectious disease agents around the world? Under the Weather evaluates our current understanding of the linkages among climate, ecosystems, and infectious disease; it then goes a step further and outlines the research needed to improve our understanding of these linkages. The book also examines the potential for using climate forecasts and ecological observations to help predict infectious disease outbreaks, identifies the necessary components for an epidemic early warning system, and reviews lessons learned from the use of climate forecasts in other realms of human activity.
Download or read book Fixing Famine written by Suzanne M.M. Burg and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Security Tipping Points Using Remote Sensing to Improve Famine Early Warning Systems written by Prasanna Krishna Krishnamurthy Reddiar and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a growing population and climate-related disasters projected to become more severe, the need to anticipate and better prepare for food crises has never been higher. Status quo early warning systems perform well, by and large, but complex weather phenomena are a major source of uncertainty. In this dissertation, I explore whether statistical diagnostics associated with tipping point theory can be used to improve detection of major crises. First, the accuracy of early warning systems is evaluated - with a focus on the Greater Horn of Africa. I discuss geographical disparities in early warning skill, and explore the various sources of uncertainty that impact food security projection accuracy. I quantify the contribution of climate forecast skill and conflict events in overall early warning skill to use as a baseline upon which to improve. Second, the potential applications of tipping point theory are discussed in relation to the use of remotely-sensed environmental variables for food security early warning. I evaluate the different statistical diagnostics that can be applied to identify food security tipping points and the data requirements in terms of spatial and temporal resolutions, data availability, latency and geographic coverage in order to be maximally useful for early warning analysis. Finally, I test whether statistical diagnostics of tipping points can be used for detection of food security transitions. Through this work, I demonstrate the utility of combining soil moisture measurements from the SMAP mission with food price data for identifying transitions, with a lead time of approximately 3 months. The model presented here was used to detect all major food security transitions (both towards and away from a crisis) in the observational record of soil moisture. Importantly, the diagnostics are also correlated with the magnitude of change in food security conditions which is critical information for food security planning. Overall, the dissertation advances the science and capabilities of food security early warning, which will lead to an improvement in saving lives and resources.
Download or read book Food from Peace written by Ellen Messer and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1998 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistics.
Download or read book Managing Famine Risk written by Rob Bailey and published by Chatham House (Formerly Riia). This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of famine early warning systems to anticipate and mitigate food crises provides a major opportunity to save more lives, protect more livelihoods, check rising costs, and close the widening funding gap. But all too often the link between early warning and early action fails, and the opportunity to mitigate a gathering crisis is lost. Rob Bailey considers in detail the various political, institutional, and organizational barriers to translating early warning of famine into early action to avert it, and he offers recommendations for overcoming them.
Download or read book Time Series Analysis of Famine Early Warning Systems in Mail written by Cynthia A. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famine Early Warning Systems Network written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goal of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is to strengthen the abilities of African countries and regional organizations to manage risk of food insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical early warning and vulnerability information. FEWS NET is a USAID-funded activity that collaborates with international, national, and regional partners to provide timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability information on emerging or evolving food security issues. FEWS NET professionals in the US and Africa monitor various data and information--including remotely sensed data and ground-based meteorological, crop and rangeland conditions--as early indications of potential threats to food security.
Download or read book Early Warning and Conflict Management in the Horn of Africa written by Cirû Mwaûra and published by The Red Sea Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horn of Africa has come to be defined by the frequency and intensity of its violent conflicts. Yet, whereas in other regions conflict prevention stresses formal, top-down inter-governmental structures, in the Horn of Africa an alternative conflict management regime that seeks to build on local capacity and is based on inclusive and collaborative decision-making has emerged. This publication outlines the two-year process of CEWARN's and IGAD's development.
Download or read book A Guide to Famine Early Warning and Food Information Systems in the Sahel and Horn of Africa written by Margaret Buchanan-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Warning in the Sahel and Horn of Africa written by Susanna Davies and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famine in Somalia written by Daniel G. Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted nearly a year earlier. The harshest drought in Somalia's recent history coincided with a global spike in food prices, hitting this arid, import-dependent country hard. The policies of Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group that controlled southern Somalia, exacerbated an already difficult situation, barring most humanitarian assistance, while donors counter-terrorism policies led to cuts and criminalized any aid falling into their hands. A major disaster resulted from the production and market failures precipitated by the drought and food price crisis, while the famine itself was the result of the failure to quickly respond to these events-and was thus largely human-made. This book analyses the famine: the trade-offs between competing policy priorities that led to it, the collective failure in response, and how those affected by it attempted to protect themselves and their livelihoods.It also examines the humanitarian response, including actors that had not previously been particularly visible in Somalia-from Turkey, the Middle East, and Islamic charities worldwide.
Download or read book A Dangerous Delay written by Debbie Hillier and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 13 million people are still affected by the crisis in the Horn of Africa. There were clear early warning signs many months in advance, yet there was insufficient response until it was far too late. This briefing, published jointly by Oxfam and Save the Children, examines the factors that allowed a drought in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti to develop into a full-scale crisis of hunger and livelihoods, such that millions of people suffered and thousands died. Its main focus is the response of international aid system, although the ultimate importance of enhanced resilience for the communities themselves is recognised. Recommendations: A change in approach to chronic drought situations is needed: managing the risks, not the crisis. This means that the all actors {u2013} national governments, donors, NGOs, and the UN need to: act decisively on information from early warning systems and not wait for certainty before responding; actively seek to reduce drought risk in all activities, ensuring that long-term development interventions increase resilience and adapt to the changing context; and change organisational structures, invest in people and provide flexible funding in order to break down the divisions between humanitarian and development work.
