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29/04/2020
Speakers
Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, FAO
Stephanie Hanson, Senior Vice President, One Acre Fund
Matt Nims, Deputy Director, USAID Office of Food for Peace
Vimlendra Sharan, Director, Liaison Office for North America, FAO
Steven Burak, Coordinator, Regional Desert Locust Alliance and Project [...]
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06/04/2020
The main farming systems in Karamoja Cluster incorporate mixed farming; agro-pastoral farming; highland perennial farming; highland mixed farming and pastoral farming; fish-based farming; irrigated farming; sparse arid pastoralism and oases farming and urban and peri-urban farming systems. In terms of [...]
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06/03/2020
Livestock is one of the major renewable resource endowments of the IGAD Member States (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda). The region has one of the highest ruminant livestock concentrations in Africa and in the world. Its [...]
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Desert locusts could worsen food insecurity in East and Horn of Africa
12/02/2020
The East and Horn of Africa region is currently facing one of the worst infestations of desert locusts - whose destructive impact is likely to cause large-scale crop damage and worsen food insecurity in countries already affected by recurrent drought, [...]
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06/02/2020
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region landmass is about 60-70 percent Arid and Semiarid Lands (ASALs) characterised by low, erratic rainfall. The pastoralists and agropastoralists who inhabit these ASALs mainly depend on livestock keeping for their livelihood. However, livestock [...]