The East Africa food crisis was not inevitable and solutions exist
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 Posted in English | No Comments »The drought in East Africa is an urgent humanitarian crisis, but one which also highlights the underlying problems people face in having sustainable and affordable access to food. It was well known that failing rains would affect farmers, pastoralists and other ...
Has Zambia really escaped “the poverty trap”?
Monday, July 18th, 2011 Posted in English, Zambia | 2 Comments »by Monica Mutesa Essential Services Coordinator, Zambia In development circles there was much debate last week when it was announced that Zambia had moved up the World Bank rankings and become a "middle-income country". But the truth is that this "news" remains a ...
GROW and Oxfam’s response to the East Africa food crisis
Thursday, July 14th, 2011 Posted in English | No Comments »The drought in East Africa is an urgent humanitarian crisis, but one which also highlights the underlying problems people face in having sustainable and affordable access to food. Read more
East Africa food crisis
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 Posted in English | No Comments »Large parts of East Africa are facing the world's worst food crisis. Across the region Oxfam's humanitarian response is aiming to reach approximately three million people. [caption id="attachment_2595" align="alignleft" width="374" caption="A woman starts to make a new home after arriving in ...
Somali refugees barred from aid camp
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 Posted in English | No Comments »Tens of thousands of Somali refugees fleeing the worsening food crisis and ongoing conflict in the Horn of Africa are being barred from a new aid camp that stands empty and unused while refugee families live in shocking conditions a ...
