Food System Transformations in the Sahel and West Africa. Implications for people and policies (OECD)
Food security on a national and regional level, environmental sustainability with a look at climate change, issues in urbanisation, demographic…
In Search of the Resilient Sahelian: Reflections on a Fashionable Notion (World Food Policy)
World Food Policy in this paper investigates the concept of the resilient Sahelian citizen, the challenges, operationalization and policies necessary…
Soldiers alone will not help the Sahel (NIMD Netherlands Office)
An approach to the crisis in the Sahelian region which is merely military is insufficient. Services to the communities and…
Summary of Conclusions [on the Food and Nutrition Crisis in the Sahel] (RPCR)
The ongoing food and nutrition crisis in both the Sahel and West Africa affects some 27.1 million people in the…
ICCT’s Key Publications on Countering Violent Extremism in Mali (ICCT)
The MERIT project, a joint endeavor by ICCT and UNICRI, aims at “preventing and countering violent extremism in Mali.” The…
Women Preventing Violent Extremism (WPVE) in the Horn and Sahel (USIP)
Women must be integrated in the fight against the “drivers of violent extremism” in the Horn of Africa and the…
Sahel and West Africa: Alarming Food and Nutritional Insecurity. An unprecedented level of food and nutritional insecurity (UNICEF)
According to UNICEF, some 16.7 million people in the Sahel and in West Africa face acute nutrition insecurity. Some 23,6…
Conflict, Coping and Covid: Changing human smuggling and trafficking dynamics in North Africa and the Sahel in 2019 and 2020 (GI-TOC)
“Smuggling and trafficking in Libya, Tunisia, Niger, Chad and Mali” has been monitored by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized…
Africa is creating its own Great Wall – and it’s green (World Economic Forum)
A 8,000-kilometer strip of savanna in the southern part of the Sahara is set to create 10 million jobs and…
The Sahel: What needs to change – Towards A New People-Centered Approach (People’s Coalition for the Sahel)
The People’s Coalition, in this document, emphasized that military interventions should be amended by a number of ‘Citizen Pillars,’ which…
Adapting Social Safety Net Operations to Insecurity in the Sahel (World Bank)
Social protection is difficult to reach in “high-risk conditions” such as those which exist in the Sahelian region. The safety…
The fast response of Sahel precipitation to climate change allows effective mitigation action (NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science)
Precipitation over the center of the Sahel region is projected to increase in the short and intermediate term, while the…