Reports

La note aux décideurs du Réseau de Prévention des Crises Alimentaires (RPCA) résume les principales conclusions et les propositions de mesures à prendre de sa 27ème réunion annuelle qui s’est tenue du 8 au 10 décembre…

The 27 th annual meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network in the Sahel and West Africa (RPCA) took place under the patronage of His Excellency José Maria Neves, Prime Minister of Cape Verde. The aim…

by Sarah Oughton in Burkina Faso In a remote, dusty village in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso, Hadjatou Diko is cradling Issa, her six-month-old son. She has just learned from a Red Cross nurse that Issa…

Dos regiones de África con niveles de desnutrición alarmantes Trece millones de personas siguen en riesgo de inseguridad alimentaria en el cinturón del Sahel Esta semana se ha desplazado a Burkina Faso un delegado para apoyar las distribuciones alimentarias…

Fatumata, 28, knocks the leaves of a thorny tree with a long metal pole and picks them up off the dry and dusty ground one by one. “We normally only feed these leaves to our animals,”…

KEY DEVELOPMENTS On February 15, leaders from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), and the U.N. Development Program, as well as donor governments, including USAID and the…

OUAGADOUGOU, 29 February 2012 (IRIN) - With nearly 20,000 Malian refugees now in Burkina Faso, according to Burkina Minister of Communications Alain Traore, and up to 800 more crossing the border each day, the government says…

Messages clés • Dans la plupart des zones de moyens d’existence dans le pays, plus de 80 pour cent des ménages arrivent actuellement à couvrir leur besoins essentiels sans recourir à des stratégies d’adaptation négative. • Les populations…

MEMO/12/137 Brussels, 28 February 2012 In a world of seven billion people, nearly one billion suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition. The European Commission has joined forces with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the…

Key Messages In most of the livelihood zones in the country, more than 80 percent of households are currently able to cover their essential needs without resorting to negative coping strategies. Acutely food insecure populations will not be…