2017 was not only the hottest year on record but also the costliest in terms of damages from severe weather and climate events. Followed by extreme weather continuing to claim lives and destroy livelihoods in 2018, there is an urgent [...]

Around sixty participants from the IGAD Secretariat and the Member States were in Isiolo, Kenya, from 6-8 August 2018 to take part in an inaugural IGAD knowledge share fair, whose theme was Strengthening Cross-border Cooperation in the IGAD Clusters. The aim [...]

This report provides an analysis of various dimensions of the resilience capacity of Mauritanian households. The results of the RIMA analysis (Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis) provide evidence to demonstrate the factors that enable certain households to overcome shocks and [...]

A workshop co-led by The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the Feinstein International Center (FIC) at Tufts University’s School of Nutrition Science and Policy Mind the Gap: Bridging the Research, Practice and Policy Divide to enhance livelihoods [...]

A dzud is a term used in Mongolia to describe a very harsh winter which is preceded by a hot and dry summer. The combination of these two events results in limited availability of fodder and wheat, a key food [...]