Pastoral households face dire food insecurity
21/03/2018
Over one year of severe dry weather conditions affected forage and water availability in most pastoral and agro-pastoral areas, causing massive livestock deaths in Somalia. Weather forecasts point to below-average precipitations during the April-June “gu” season and a full recovery [...]
Discussion paper and good practices
21/03/2018
Climate change is predicted to have a marked effect on the agricultural sector in Eastern Africa. However, there is considerable potential to adapt to climate change. This can be done within the framework of the watershed management approach. There are [...]
20/03/2018
Scaling up of Adaptation in the Agricultural Sectors (SAAS)
Module 1: Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in the agricultural sectors
Webinar 3: Ecosystem-based Adaptation and National Adaptation Planning: Opportunities for the Agricultural Sectors
Tuesday, 20 March 2018 – 10:00-11:30 CET (UTC/GMT +1)
The third webinar of the [...]
19/03/2018
The Food Security Cluster (FSC) Preparedness and Resilience Working Group (PRWG) launched a call for good practices on preparedness and resilience-building approaches and activities among its partners.
Mercy Corps' Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) project is a five-year project which [...]
Support for the widespread production, preservation and consumption of high nutrient value foods to strengthen resilience to food and income insecurity
19/03/2018
Uganda lies almost completely within the Nile Basin with irregular rainfall patterns: monomodal rainfall patterns (one rainy season) and bi-modal rainfall patterns (two rainy seasons). Its vulnerability to climate change, especially poor rainfall and long dry spells in the northern [...]