Reports

El Banco Mundial considera que hace falta 100.000 millones de dólares anuales para llevar agua a los países en desarrollo, un tercio del presupuesto militar de Estados Unidos La ciudad de Kioto es, hasta el domingo, la capital mundial del…

World Vision Zimbabwe has pledged to bring in more food into the country to ensure that no one starves in a nation where over 7.2 million people are in need of urgent food aid. Speaking during her visit to…

Summary Food security monitoring assessments conducted between January and March concur with food security projections made by various food aid agencies in December 2002. Apart from the recent arrival of returnees from Ethiopia, the food security situation is not significantly different…

by Solveig Olafsdottir in Masvingo province Within the space of a week, the Sithole family have gone from having too much water to hardly any at all. First, they lost their house, land and property Bikita district, in Zimbabwe's Masvingo…

Nairobi, 19 March 2003 - WFP and UNICEF have launched the first-ever delivery of humanitarian supplies to eastern Sudan's Blue Nile State, until recently considered off-limits to aid agencies. Together, the aid agencies will target some 115,000 people, whose food security…

Interview with Tireza Satheesh and Zerihun Mammo, Ethiopian Youth representatives, sponsored by UNICEF, to the Third World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan 18-22 March You recently returned from a field trip to drought-affected areas of Ethiopia as part of your…

There is no road to the village of Shebek, just a sandy track that winds for miles across the rocky, barren plain, past endless fields of failed crops and dry riverbeds. It is midday, but the sun is partly obscured…

Overview of the Current Situation Drought conditions have continued to prevail over most parts of Ethiopia in early 2003, extending the dramatic decline in crop production in certain areas of Somali, Tigray, Oromiya, Amhara and SNNPR Regions.…

Pipe and a few pumps make farming possible in an arid community. The Rift Valley area of central Ethiopia is a place of chronic food shortage, especially in recent years as erratic rains have stunted crops, and diseases have…

Food crisis in Ethiopia puts millions at risk of starvation; drought and poverty require food aid, water, and long-term efforts to help impoverished communities. Lack of rain and endemic poverty have created a food crisis in Ethiopia, where more than…