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Executive Summary Humanitarian needs are rapidly rising in Zimbabwe—as a result of the devastating 2018/2019 drought, crop losses, economic shocks and the aftermath of Cyclone Idai—leaving 7 million people in urban and rural areas across the country…

FAO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS WORKING PAPER 20-01 Marco d’Errico1* Oscar Ngesa2* Rebecca Pietrelli1 1 Economist, Agricultural Development Economics Division, FAO 2 Econometrician, Resilience Team in East Africa, FAO Kenya Abstract People living in contexts prone to or affected by conflict suffer from…

Extreme weather events are increasing across the world and this can be attributed to climate change occasioned by global warming. Droughts, floods and storms are occurring in Africa at an alarming frequency. This, compounded by development…

The 2019 Shona Socio-Economic Assessment Survey report studies data on Shona households living in and around Kenya's Nairobi and Kiambu counties. The Shona community is a stateless population originating from Zimbabwe and Zambia. This groundbreaking report is the…

Methodology IOM’s SMS team uses multiple methods and different sources of information in order to obtain up-to-date data for its Kebele Profiles, including key informant consultations with Cluster and Government focal points, regular service monitoring by SMS…

Methodology IOM’s SMS team uses multiple methods and different sources of information in order to obtain up-to-date data for its Kebele Profiles, including key informant consultations with Cluster and Government focal points, regular service monitoring by SMS…

Drought Situation & EW Phase Classification Drought Phase: Normal- Stable Biophysical Indicators • Most biophysical indicators are within the expected seasonal ranges. • Off season showers were received in the first dekad of February. • The vegetation greenness as depicted by…

Drought Situation & EW Phase Classification Drought Phase: Normal- Stable Biophysical Indicators • Most biophysical indicators are within the expected seasonal ranges. • Off season showers were received in the first dekad of February. • The vegetation greenness as depicted by…

Drought Situation & EW Phase Classification Biophysical Indicators • The County received above average off seasonal rainfall during the Month of February. • The vegetation condition Index (VCI-3Month) was showing increase of seven percent compared to previous month. • The…

Drought Situation & EW Phase Classification Biophysical Indicators Rainfall: • Performance: the county received 2 to 5 days of light to heavy rains across the livelihood zones. The temporal distribution of the rains was fair whereas the spatial distribution…