Hunger in West Africa reaches record high in a decade as the region faces an unprecedented crisis (World Food Programme)
The number of women, men and children affected by a food and nutrition crisis in West and Central Africa is…
Food crisis: the EU takes action to support Africa’s Sahel and Lake Chad regions (European Commission)
A total of €554 million in 2022 will be targeted at increasing food security in Sahel and Lake Chad, where…
How pastoralism supports livelihoods and builds peace (foodforafrica.com)
The Sahel region, which stretches from the Sahara desert in the north to the southern savannahs of Sudan, plays a…
The nutrition hotspot analysis: Prioritising intervention areas in the Sahel countries (ENN)
Since 2019, humanitarian and government partners have collaborated to develop a nutrition hotspot analysis tool. Despite the challenges associated with…
Central Sahel: Improve children’s wellbeing and learning – Increasing psychosocial support in schools (UN OCHA)
“The humanitarian impact of this crisis is worrisome with a number of displaced people multiplied by 10, growing from 213,000…
Ending the everyday emergency: Resilience and children in the Sahel (Save the Children)
“More than 1 million children face severe and life-threatening malnutrition in the Sahel region of West Africa in 2012. ‘Ending…
Africa’s Sahel region facing ‘horrendous food crisis’ (UN News)
“As the Sahel region ‘stares down a horrendous food crisis’, the UN emergency food relief chief warned … that the…
Harvesting the rain: The adoption of environmental technologies in the Sahel (Tufts, UCSB)
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Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ could have far-reaching climate effects (ScienceNews)
“Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative is a proposed 8,000-kilometer line of trees meant to hold back the Sahara from expanding…
Livestock and ecosystems in the Sahel: the good, the bad and the ugly (World Agroforestry)
“In the Sahel, livestock rearing is practised by over 20 million pastoralists and is a crucial adaptation strategy in the…
35.8 million face lean season food crisis in West Africa and Sahel (UN News)
“Growing food insecurity that is already affecting tens of millions of people across West Africa and the Sahel, must not…
Climate Risk Profile: Sahel (UNHCR)
“Rising temperatures and more extreme weather conditions pose existential challenges to semi-arid regions like the Sahel. Future emissions will determine…