Download or read book The Elimination of Food Insecurity in the Horn of Africa written by Inter-Agency Task Force on the UN Response to Long-Term Food Security, Agricultural Development, and Related Aspects in the Horn of Africa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ending Hunger in Africa written by Ibrahim A. Mayaki and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Root Causes of Food Insecurity in the Horn of Africa written by Andrew Deng Mawiir and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horn of Africa (HoA) region encompasses of Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Kenya in Africa continent. It's one of the most food insecure regions in the world, characterised by frequent droughts and conflict in Africa. However, there are many examples of food insecurity with some of them having reached catastrophic dimensions in the region. The disadvantageous situations of women and children is particularly serious, as well as the situations among female teenagers who receive less food than their male counterparts in the same households in the region. Findings included that: political instability and civil strife; environmental degradation and climate change; poor economic policies; rapid population growth; poor food production mechanism; soaring food prices and global financial crisis; food quality and gender inequality. The study recommends policies and intervention that combating food insecurity issues to supporting food security in the region.
Download or read book Meeting the challenges to food security in the Horn of Africa Fourth annual Peter Doherty Distinguished Lecture written by Catherine Bertini and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eliminating Hunger in Africa written by James L. Newman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains several essays which (1) focus attention on the roles markets play in creating and alleviating hunger; (2) examine two examples of the impacts of structural adjustment policies aimed at improving Somalia's agricultural performance; (3) review the famine relief efforts of 1984-85 in the Sahel and northeastern Africa, underscoring what was learned from both successes and failures; and (4) discuss how land scarcity is increasing in many parts of Africa, transforming the nature of rural poverty.
Download or read book Food Security in Africa written by Barakat Mahmoud and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume “Food Security in Africa” is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of food safety and availability, water issues, farming and nutrition. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the public health and food security research area. All chapters are complete in itself but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on Africa’s food security challenges, quality of water, small-scale farming as well as economic and social challenges that this continent is facing. Hopefully, this volume will open new possible research paths for further novel developments.
Download or read book Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2019 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition, FAO reported that the prevalence of undernourishment was rising in the region. The latest data shows that the deterioration has slowed, but there remain 256 million hungry people in Africa today. The report further documents that although many African countries are making progress towards reducing malnutrition, progress is too slow to meet six key nutrition targets, which form part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) monitoring framework and the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets. Food insecurity has been rising in Africa in recent years and the continent is not on track to eliminate hunger by 2030. The 2017, 2018 and this year’s report identify and report in detail on conflict, climate extremes and economic slowdowns and downturns as the key drivers of the rise in food insecurity. In most cases, the economic slowdowns and downturns that contributed to rising undernourishment in 2014–2018 were the result of commodity price falls. Many effective policy tools are available, but their adoption will depend on the availability of fiscal space to effect the desired policy action. In the longer-term, countries must develop policies and invest to achieve a more diversified economy and achieve an inclusive structural transformation. However, sustained economic growth is not enough: reducing inequalities, including gender-based and spatial inequalities, is essential to strengthening household resilience, laying the path to inclusive growth and reducing food insecurity and tackling the multiple forms of malnutrition.
Download or read book Inducing Food Insecurity written by Margaret A. Mohamed-Salih and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1994 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agro-ecosystems, by Eric C. Quaye
Download or read book Food Insecurity Hydroclimate in Greater Horn of Africa written by Joseph Awange and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will benefit users in food security, agriculture, water management, and environmental sectors. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of Greater Horn of Africa (GHA)'s food insecurity and hydroclimate using the state-of-the-art Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its Follow-on (GRACE-FO)'s, centennial precipitation, hydrological models' and reanalysis' products. It is here opined that GHA is endowed with freshwater (surface and groundwater) being home to the world's second largest freshwater body (Lake Victoria) and the greatest continental water towers (Ethiopian Highlands) that if properly tapped in a sustainable way, will support its irrigated agriculture as well as pastoralism. First, however, the obsolete Nile treaties that hamper the use of Lake Victoria (White Nile) and Ethiopian Highland (Blue Nile) have to be unlocked. Moreover, GHA is bedevilled by poor governance and the ``donor-assistance" syndrome; and in 2020-2021 faced the so-called ``triple threats'' of desert locust infestation, climate variability/change impacts and COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, climate extremes influence its meagre waters leading to perennial food insecurity. Coupled with frequent regional and local conflicts, high population growth rate, low crop yield, invasion of migratory pests, contagious human and livestock diseases (such as HIV/AIDs, COVID-19 & Rift Valley fever) and poverty, life for more than 310 million of its inhabitants simply becomes unbearable. Alarming also is the fact that drought-like humanitarian crises are increasing in GHA despite recent progress in its monitoring and prediction efforts. Notwithstanding these efforts, there remain challenges stemming from uncertainty in its prediction, and the inflexibility and limited buffering capacity of the recurrent impacted systems. To achieve greater food security, therefore, in addition to boosting GHA's agricultural output, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs suggest that its "inhabitants must create more diverse and stable means of livelihood to insulate themselves and their households from external shocks". This is a task that they acknowledge will not be easy as the path ahead is "strewn with obstacles namely; natural hazards and armed conflicts". Understanding GHA's food insecurity and its hydroclimate as presented in this book is a good starting point towards managing the impacts of the natural hazards on the one hand while understanding the impacts associated with extreme climate on GHA's available water and assessing the potential of its surface and groundwater to support its irrigated agriculture and pastoralism would be the first step towards "coping with drought" on the other hand. The book represents a significant effort by Prof Awange in trying to offer a comprehensive overview of the hydroclimate in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). Prof Eric F. Wood, NAE (USA); FRSC (Canada); Foreign member, ATSE (Australia).
Download or read book Critical Links written by Lori Ann Thrupp and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food security and the environment concepts and cnnections; Main concepts; Critical linkages; Resources and stakeholders; Resource endowments and transboundary resources; Stakeholders and institutions involved in food security and environmental security; The conplexity of insecurity in the Greater Horn; Conditions and trends; Root causes of food insecurity and environmental insecurity; Opportunities for food security and environmental security; Strategic principles; Options and opportunities for regional action; Reflections on prioity-setting and regional opportunities; Background information on WRI-IUCN project on food security and the environment in the Greater Horn of Africa; List of papers prepared by WRI, IUCN-EARO and collaborators for the project on food security and the environment in the Greater Horn of Africa.
Download or read book Food Insecurity Hydroclimate in Greater Horn of Africa written by Joseph Awange and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will benefit users in food security, agriculture, water management, and environmental sectors. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of Greater Horn of Africa (GHA)’s food insecurity and hydroclimate using the state-of-the-art Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its Follow-on (GRACE-FO)’s, centennial precipitation, hydrological models’ and reanalysis’ products. It is here opined that GHA is endowed with freshwater (surface and groundwater) being home to the world's second largest freshwater body (Lake Victoria) and the greatest continental water towers (Ethiopian Highlands) that if properly tapped in a sustainable way, will support its irrigated agriculture as well as pastoralism. First, however, the obsolete Nile treaties that hamper the use of Lake Victoria (White Nile) and Ethiopian Highland (Blue Nile) have to be unlocked. Moreover, GHA is bedevilled by poor governance and the ``donor-assistance” syndrome; and in 2020-2021 faced the so-called ``triple threats’’ of desert locust infestation, climate variability/change impacts and COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, climate extremes influence its meagre waters leading to perennial food insecurity. Coupled with frequent regional and local conflicts, high population growth rate, low crop yield, invasion of migratory pests, contagious human and livestock diseases (such as HIV/AIDs, COVID-19 & Rift Valley fever) and poverty, life for more than 310 million of its inhabitants simply becomes unbearable. Alarming also is the fact that drought-like humanitarian crises are increasing in GHA despite recent progress in its monitoring and prediction efforts. Notwithstanding these efforts, there remain challenges stemming from uncertainty in its prediction, and the inflexibility and limited buffering capacity of the recurrent impacted systems. To achieve greater food security, therefore, in addition to boosting GHA's agricultural output, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs suggest that its “inhabitants must create more diverse and stable means of livelihood to insulate themselves and their households from external shocks”. This is a task that they acknowledge will not be easy as the path ahead is “strewn with obstacles namely; natural hazards and armed conflicts”. Understanding GHA’s food insecurity and its hydroclimate as presented in this book is a good starting point towards managing the impacts of the natural hazards on the one hand while understanding the impacts associated with extreme climate on GHA's available water and assessing the potential of its surface and groundwater to support its irrigated agriculture and pastoralism would be the first step towards “coping with drought” on the other hand. The book represents a significant effort by Prof Awange in trying to offer a comprehensive overview of the hydroclimate in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). Prof Eric F. Wood, NAE (USA); FRSC (Canada); Foreign member, ATSE (Australia).
Download or read book Food and nutrition emergencies in East Africa Political economic and environmental associations written by Ruth Oniang'o and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Co operation as a Response to Food Insecurity in the Horn of Africa written by Vigil M. Jima and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Security in Sub Saharan Africa written by Stephen Devereux and published by ITDG Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most contributions reflect an evolution of thinking during the 1990s.
Download or read book Grasslands of the World written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together information on the contrasting characteristics, condition, present use and problems of the world's main natural grasslands. Since grassland is commercialized through the grazing animal, particular attention is paid to the livestock production systems associated with each main type. Grazing resources are more than simply edible herbage: many other factors have to be taken into account, notably water in all areas, and shelter in winter-cold climates. Seasonality of forage supply is a characteristic of almost all grazing lands, so the strategies for dealing with lean seasons are described. The main problems of each type are mentioned and possible strategies for their sustainable management discussed - taking into account their multiple functions, not only livestock production. The book is primarily aimed at agricultural scientists, educationalists, extensionists and decision-makers with interests in responsible use of extensive grasslands.
Download or read book Critical Links written by L. A. Thrupp and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feeding the Future written by Jibril Mohamed and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somalia, a country of ten million people in the eastern Horn of Africa, has lately been in the world media as a source of bad news: anarchy, conflict, terrorism in its land, piracy at its coast, and a famine that killed thousands of people and displaced thousands more creating the world's largest refugee camp. In 2011, the United Nations declared a famine emergency and reported that the lives of more than ten million people were at imminent risk of starvation in the region if emergency food aid did not reach them. More than 29,000 children under the age of five died in Somalia in July and August of 2011 alone. The world responded with emergency food aid to the tune of millions of dollars. The United States led the humanitarian crisis response effort by investing over one billion dollars in response to the United Nations appeal. However, this was not the first instance of famine and drought emergence in Somalia neither is it the last. The 2011 famine was contained but it was not controlled as evidenced by a new food security status report which stated thus: “2.12 million people are expected to remain in the Stressed, Crisis and Emergency levels of food insecurity for refugees and Coastal Deeh pastoralists, through December 2012” (East Africa Food Security Outlook: September 2012). This paper will provide background information on the myriad of intricate problems of the Horn of Africa including environmental degradation, poverty, and a web of conflict ranging from ethnic clashes to terrorism and piracy. The paper will then explore a responsible framework for the attainment of food security in Somalia by asking the question “is there a different approach or a deliberate and innovative system for ensuring food security for the population and reducing the need for food aid in Somalia.?” A review of existing literature will be conducted by discussing various challenges, international crisis response mechanisms, and current best practices. The paper will then use supply side economic theories by examining issues that can disrupt the food production and supply chains in the country such as heightened insecurity, poor access to trade, poor rainfall or flooding which result in constrained food supply. Finally, the paper will attempt to recommend methods for building the resiliency of the local population and their capacity to attain food self-sufficiency by identifying and addressing some critical underlying causes of food insecurity. There is an abundance of relevant reference materials available at the United Nations, the U.S. Agency for International Development, as well as various international aid agencies that operate in Somalia. I will use my vast pool of contacts in the humanitarian aid sector and academia to gather information on the various approaches used in drought relief and food aid in the past. I will also make every effort to compare my recommendations to success stories in other nations or communities that used innovative methods in their quest for food security. The objective of this project is to highlight important aspects of the current food aid models in practice in the Horn of Africa region and present a fresh view of looking at current interventions, their relevance and suitability to the prevalent challenges and suggest important changes and innovative interventions especially in the light of the changing technological, political and security climate in the whole of Somalia.
