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Seed vouchers - not handouts - could boost drought resilience

05 September 2011 10:46 BST | Comments (0)
Jerome Bossuet | Climate Conversations
Ensuring seed aid to drought-hit farmers passes through local dealers can head off the need for future handouts
Don’t forget Djibouti in Horn of Africa crisis - report

16 August 2011 16:04 BST | Comments (2)
alex-whiting | AlertNet News Blog
Tiny Djibouti is in its fourth year of drought
Preparing for drought can pay off as climate impacts take hold

15 August 2011 16:44 BST | Comments (0)
Esther Williams | Climate Conversations
Disaster risk reduction efforts can have a big payoff as drought worsens

NEWS:World dragging its feet over Horn of Africa crisis-UNHCR
UN refugee chief calls crisis worst he has seen at helm of organisation
NEWS:UN declares famine in parts of Somalia
Years of drought have hit harvests and conflict has made it difficult for agencies to operate in the south of Somalia, the U.N. says
NEWS:U.S. NGOs respond to Horn of Africa humanitarian crisis
Members of InterAction, the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations working abroad, are responding to the massive humanitarian crisis occurring in the Horn of Africa.

Somalia's Agriculture Minister Abdullahi Hagi Hassan Mohamed Nuur speaks during a meeting in Rome, about the famine crisis in...

A night of fighting in Beirut claims at least two lives and wounds dozens

The Po Valley is shaken by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake