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Head-to-head: Africa's food crisis

An official from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), Nicholas Crawford, and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, a pan-Africanist and Director of Justice Africa, debate what is causing Africa's deepening food crisis and what the solutions might be.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4670744.stm

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African Voices - Improving EC aid to Agriculture in Africa

African Voices in Europe has been launched by Practical Action to expose the failures of EC aid to improve the lives of farmers and livestock keepers in Africa and set a new agenda for ensuring aid reaches Africa's poorest communities. The site includes videos, photo stories, and in-depth research on EC aid to agriculture in Africa.

http://practicalaction.org/?id=africanvoices

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Alarming food situation in Ethiopia: FAO proposes six emergency projects

ROME, 19 September 2002 -- The food situation in several parts of Ethiopia remains alarming with millions of people suffering from drought, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a statement issued today. A large number of livestock deaths and the migration of people in search of water and pasture are being reported. FAO has therefore launched a new appeal for US$1.9 million in support of six emergency projects.

http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2002/9200-en.html

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allAfrica.com - Southern Africa

allAfrica's coverage of the southern Africa region. AllAfrica Global Media is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.

http://allafrica.com/southernafrica/

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Christian Aid - Spotlight: Southern Africa food emergency

Nearly 14 million people in seven countries in southern Africa are facing starvation, and urgent food aid is needed now to save lives. Two years of drought, flooding in some areas and political instability have led to poor harvests. The threat of famine is now looming in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho and Angola. News stories and features, video clips, maps and reports from Christian Aid (UK).

http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/southernafrica/

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Food crisis worsening in Haiti - more than 3.8 million hungry people

(FAO) 31 July 2003, Rome -- A 'silent' food crisis is looming in Haiti, the poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO warned today. Living conditions of the poor have deteriorated markedly, with over 3.8 million people suffering from hunger. The majority of the hungry lives in rural areas.

http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/21165-en.html

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Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa

The purpose of the Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa project is to provide a platform for improved linkages between food security analysis, policy making and implementation in the Southern Africa region. The outputs of country issues papers, regional theme papers, international electronic discussions and country policy seminars are intended to generate insights and policy options drawing on longitudinal research in the region and comparative international evidence that it is hoped will prove useful to stakeholders. The Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa provides a platform for all relevant stakeholders to discuss the medium to long term causes of the apparent increased vulnerability to food insecurity in Southern Africa, and to generate policy options to address this. It covers the region as a whole and five specific countries: Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It intends to bring together those in government, official donors, NGOs, civil society, the private sector, and international and regional researchers concerned with food security.

http://www.odi.org.uk/food-security-forum/

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Images show African food crisis

Satellite images of vegetation density in Southern Africa show the environmental changes that have contributed to the food crisis (AlertNet/Reuters). Satellite data is provided courtesy of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).

http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/satelliteimages/511045?version=1

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IMF and World Bank Statement on the Food Situation in Southern and Eastern Africa

The International Monetary Fund's African Department Director, Abdoulaye Bio-Tchané and the World Bank Group's Vice-President Calisto Madavo issued a joint statement to the Boards of Executive Directors of both institutions, on the food situation in Southern and Eastern Africa. News Brief No. 02/123 December 13, 2002.

http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/nb/2002/nb02123.htm

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Not Eligible: The Politicization of Food in Zimbabwe (PDF)

Human Rights Watch, October 24, 2003. Zimbabwean authorities discriminate against perceived political opponents by denying them access to food programs, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. International relief agencies in Zimbabwe fail to ensure that access to food is based on need alone and is not biased by domestic or international political concerns. The 51-page report, "Not Eligible: The Politicization of Food in Zimbabwe," documents how food is denied to suspected supporters of Zimbabwe's main opposition party and to residents of former commercial farms resettled under the country's "fast-track" land reform program. The report examines the widespread politicization of the government's subsidized grain program, managed by the Grain Marketing Board, as well as the far less extensive manipulation of international food aid. (.3Mb)

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/zimbabwe1003/

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OneWorld Full Coverage: Southern Africa

The OneWorld database contains tens of thousands of documents on Southern Africa from the partners' websites. There are 114 oneworld.net partners working in matters related with this location.

http://www.oneworld.net/themes/country/country_958_1.shtml

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Press Briefing by United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator - Southern Africa Food Crisis

(19/09/2002) The number of people affected by the drought in southern Africa was growing more rapidly than anticipated, Carolyn McAskie, United Nations Deputy Relief Coordinator, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon. Briefing the journalists on her recent visit to the six most affected countries in that region -- Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique -- where she had accompanied James Morris, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) and Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for humanitarian needs in southern Africa, she said that assessment figures indicated that the number of affected people had grown from 12.8 million to 14.4 million people.

http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2002/McaskiePressBrf.doc.htm

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Reuters Alertnet Relief Resources>> Food Security

From flooding, drought, civil conflicts and a devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic, southern Africa has been buffeted by repeated natural and man-made disasters. Malawi and surrounding countries are currently facing the prospect of severe food shortages. This resource page includes breaking news, feature articles, stories from the field, satellite images, country profiles and links.

http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/sections/307468.htm

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Sahel: A Prisoner of Starvation? - A Case Study of the 2005 Food Crisis in Niger

This report reviews the 2005 food crisis in Niger and assesses the response of the Nigerien government and the international donor community. It explores the role markets play in alleviating or aggravating food needs of the population. It examines the outcome of international economic reforms and development policies implemented in Niger during the past 25 years, finding that they appear to be driven by ideology instead of by a comprehensive analysis of development issues in the country. Implementation of policies emanating from the international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, withdrew state intervention from social and economic sectors. The report recommends strategies that can help make hunger in Sahel a thing of the past. (Frederic Mousseau with Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute, October 2006)

http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/pdfs/sahel.pdf

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Southern Africa Flood & Drought Network

This website provides information used to monitor conditions within Southern Africa when cyclones, floods and drought occur as a result of anomalous climate and weather conditions. It is provided as a service by the SADC regional meteorology, hydrology, food security and disaster communities to its member states. The website is intended to facilitate the exchange of technical and other useful information that can be used by the disaster and technical communities in preparing for and responding to the occurrence of cyclones, floods and droughts. From U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Geological Survey.

http://gisdata.usgs.net/sa_floods/index.asp

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Southern Africa food shortage most serious humanitarian crisis after AIDS - UN envoy

23 August - Next to HIV/AIDS, the food crisis in southern Africa - in which some 13 million people were at risk of starvation - was the most serious humanitarian emergency in the world, a senior United Nations official said today. Speaking at a press briefing in Geneva, James Morris, the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy for the humanitarian crisis in southern Africa, said that the crisis was brought on by drought and poverty, and complicated by government policies (UN News Service).

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4539&Cr=southern&Cr1=africa

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United Nations Consolidated Appeal for Southern Africa

In July 2003, the United Nations (UN) in collaboration with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and key NGO partners launched a Regional Appeal for US$ 533 million for a multi-sectoral approach to address critical needs in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Appeal was launched to address the needs of 6.5 million people for whom the prospect of survival remained critical in the face of the combined effects of food insecurity, weakened capacity for governance and Human Immune-deficiency Virus / Acquired Immune-deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS).

http://www.un.org/depts/ocha/cap/southafricareg.html

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Unmasking the New Green Revolution in Africa: Motives, Players and Dynamics

This report provides an analysis of the key players promoting the New Green Revolution in Africa and the dynamics among them. It is hoped that by understanding the forces behind the push for this externally led development paradigm, African civil society would have a better handle on tackling the challenges ahead and on providing locally available, environmentally sustainable, socially acceptable and culturally sensitive alternatives based on equity and justice (E C.Dano, Third World Network, 2007).

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/par/Unmasking.the.green.revolution.pdf

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Urgent Aid needed in Angola before the rainy season

Lasting peace and long-term recovery require humanitarian needs, emergency infrastructure, and de-mining to be addressed NOW, before the rains in September.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/conflict_disasters/aid_angola.htm

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Why is Southern Africa Hungry: the roots of Southern Africa's food crisis: A Christian Aid Policy Briefing (PDF 145kb)

Kate Lambrechts and Gweneth Berry. Christian Aid, June 2003. An estimated 16 million people have been affected by food shortages across Southern Africa. Following droughts and floods in 2001 and 2002 many faced months of scarcity. The paper identifies chronic poverty, poor governance, market failure, soaring rates of HIV/AIDs, and economic failure as responsible for the situation.

http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/indepth/0307safrica/safoodcrisis.pdf

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World Food Program - In Depth: Hunger Crisis in Southern Africa

In-depth coverage and resources from the WFP. Includes a country by country guide to WFP/FAO assessments of southern Africa's worst hunger crisis in a decade, maps and articles.

http://www.wfp.org/newsroom/in_depth/Africa/sa_main_page020607.htm

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World Vision International: Southen Africa Food Crisis

Information from WVI about the food crisis. Provides country-specific reports.

http://www.wvi.org/wvi/africa_food_crisis/africa_food_crisis.htm

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ZIMBABWE: Food stockpiling as people fear the 'Kenya syndrome'

Post-election violence in Kenya is creating pre-election nervousness among Zimbabwe's voters ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections in March, and people are beginning to stockpile food in the event of any possible unrest (IRIN, 9 January 2008).

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76161

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