Reports

The Yaliyaré garden in Sebba, a village in the Yagha province of Burkina Faso, gives hope to the 25 households who cultivate the land. This garden is part of a collection of sites that are supported…

More than 19 million people in the Sahel region including 2.8 million from Burkina Faso are at risk of food insecurity according to FAO report1. The reason for this severe food crisis is not only caused…

Besoins d’assistance accrue pour la période de soudure Messages clés Selon le Centre Africain pour les applications de la Météorologie (ACMAD), la précipitation au-dessus de la normale est très probable sur une grande partie du Burkina Faso. L’installation…

For the third time in a decade, drought in the Sahel region of Africa is threatening millions of people with hunger. But how do people survive in these situations and what are we doing to help…

RÉSUMÉ À la suite de l’alerte lancée par l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) et le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) en octobre-novembre 2011 face à la crise alimentaire et nutritionnelle au Sahel, la FAO,…

Highlights UNICEF is responding to a double emergency in Burkina Faso where the nutrition and refugee crises are affecting almost 3 million people. Out of an estimated 100,000 children under 5 with Severe Acute Malnutrition in 2012,…

Conclusions • Summer rains have remained steady over the past 20 years, but remain 15 percent below the 1920–69 average. • Temperatures have increased by 0.6° Celsius since 1975, amplifying the effect of droughts. • The amount of farmland…

WASHINGTON, June 26, 2012 — The World Bank today approved an International Development Association (IDA*) US$90 million grant which aims to increase cotton exports to more than 400,000 tons, mining revenues from 1.8 percent of GDP…

By Henry Makiwa This is a guest post by Henry Makiwa, British Red Cross senior media relations officer, who recently went to Burkina Faso. There, he saw how Red Cross gardening projects are helping people attain a…

By Henry Makiwa, June 20, 2012 According to the UN, at least 1 million children are at risk of the most severe form of malnutrition across the Sahel. Almost twice as many are at risk of malnutrition…