Overview

A combination of factors, including the 2011 drought, high food prices, low agricultural production, as well as the inability of affected households to recover from the 2010 food and nutrition crisis, exacerbated the Sahel region's vulnerability in 2012. As of 10 Dec 2012, the on-going conflict in Mali has resulted in at least 198,558 IDPs within Mali and approximately 156,819 Malian refugees in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mauritania. The influx of refugees into neighboring countries has already impacted access to basic services and, in addition to the existing food insecurity crisis, put more pressure on resources for host communities. (Sahel Regional Strategy 2013)

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15 Nov 2012

World + 14 others
Secretary-General Stresses Negative Impact of Climate Change in Drylands to International Conference on Food Security

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— UN Secretary-General

SG/SM/14631
ENV/DEV/1326

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the International Conference on Food Security in Drylands, in Qatar on 14 November:

I am pleased to send greetings to the International Conference on Food Security in Drylands, and I thank His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani and the Qatar National Food Security Programme for organizing it. I also thank Qatar for hosting the forthcoming 18th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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10 Sep 2012

Syrian Arab Republic + 21 others
Opening remarks by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay at the Human Rights Council 21st Session

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— UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Geneva, 10 September 2012

I would like to begin by expressing sympathy with the victims and families of those who have lost their lives or been injured as a result of the earthquakes in China and the bombings across Iraq.

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31 Aug 2012

World + 23 others
Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) n°MAA00010, Mid-Year Update

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— IFRC
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MAA00010 August 2012

Period covered: January to June 2012

Overview Seventy three allocations were made by the DREF during the first six months of 2012 for a total of CHF 11,778,445. Eighty per cent of the allocations were made as grants to support response to small or medium-scale disasters, referred to as DREF operations. Twelve emergency appeals received start-up funding loans. The allocations supported response to 69 different operations by 54 National Societies.

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15 Aug 2012

World + 30 others
Les crises alimentaires vouées à se répéter tant que les leaders ne trouveront pas le courage de résoudre les vrais problèmes

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— Oxfam
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La hausse des prix alimentaires menace des millions de vies

Des millions de gens parmi les plus pauvres seront confrontés à de graves problèmes en raison de la forte hausse des prix alimentaires.

En effet, le système alimentaire mondial présente de sérieux problèmes que les décideurs politiques n'ont pas le courage de prendre en main, préférant miser sur les ressources bon marché qu'ils ont tenues pour acquises pendant 30 ans. Mais cette époque est désormais révolue.

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08 Aug 2012

World + 30 others
Food crises doomed to repeat until leaders find courage to fix problems

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— Oxfam
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Millions more will go hungry as world struggles to respond to unprecedented food crises and sharply rising prices – Oxfam

PM’s hunger summit welcome & should kick start reforms to end “scandal” of a billion hungry people – “we cannot keep relying on humanitarian agencies to pick up the pieces”

Rising global food prices will force millions more people to go hungry and put massive additional strain on already overstretched humanitarian agencies, Oxfam warned today ahead of this weekend’s global hunger summit in Downing Street.

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03 Jul 2012

World + 24 others
Price Watch: May Food Prices

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— Famine Early Warning System Network
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The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. The Price Watch provides an update on trends in selected urban centers. Prices for key markets and commodities monitored are made available in the Price Watch Annex.*

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19 Apr 2012

World + 8 others
Living through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor

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— Institute of Development Studies, World Bank

Edited by Rasmus Heltberg, Naomi Hossain, Anna Reva

Published April 3, 2012 by World Bank

ISBN: 978-0-8213-8940-9; SKU: 18940

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01 Feb 2012

World + 12 others
Price Watch: December Food Prices

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— Famine Early Warning System Network
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The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. The Price Watch provides an update on trends in selected urban centers. Prices for key markets and commodities monitored are made available in the Price Watch Annex.

  • In West Africa, prices remain higher than last year but markets appear to operate normally in most cases by transferring grain supplies between surplus markets in the Guinean zone and deficit markets in the Sahel.

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