President Levy Mwanawasa has said the Zambian agricultural sector is under threat from the current floods this year and has appealed to India for assistance to help his Government address the various...
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Malawi + 2 more
Strengthening responses to the Triple Threat in the Southern Africa region - learning from field programmes in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia
Background For many poor people in Southern Africa, a situation of chronic livelihoods insecurity has been unfolding. Many households run a continual risk of being unable to meet their livelihood...
Strengthening responses to the Triple Threat in the Southern Africa region - learning from field programmes in Mozambique
Joint Project of Concern Worldwide (CW), Oxfam International (OI) and the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) Mozambique 1. Background A number of Concern Worldwide and...
Strengthening responses to the Triple Threat in the Southern Africa region - learning from field programmes in Zambia
Joint Project of Concern Worldwide (CW), Oxfam International (OI) and the Southern Africa Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) Zambia 1. Background A number of Concern Worldwide and Oxfam-International...
Strengthening responses to the Triple Threat in the Southern Africa region - learning from field programmes in Malawi
Joint Project of Concern Worldwide (CW), Oxfam International (OI) and the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) Malawi 1. Background A number of Concern Worldwide and Oxfam-International...
Lesotho + 5 more
Agricultural water management technologies for small scale farmers in Southern Africa: An Inventory and Assessment of experiences, good practices and costs
Executive Summary This study was carried out using funds received from the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Southern Africa Regional Office of...
South Africa + 5 more
Crop prospects and food situation in Southern Africa, April 2006
In Southern Africa, rainfall, especially during the critical months of January and February, for the main season crops planted in November-December was very favourable. More specifically, central...
South Africa: Launch of new website on hunger and vulnerability
The Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) promotes change and provides support to practitioners and policy makers in southern Africa on hunger and vulnerability issues. RHVP is launching...
Malawi + 2 more
Southern Africa: Strengthening responses to HIV/AIDS, hunger and vulnerability
Activity Concept - March 2006 Introduction Poor people (especially in rural areas) in Southern Africa continue to face increased levels of hunger due to the negative impact of climate change,...
Food Supply Situation and Crop Prospects In Southern Africa
This document is a report on the food supply situation and cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The report is divided into three main parts: - The...
Malawi + 4 more
Civil society and regional food security: Policy brief no. 1
The role of SADC The Look, Listen & Learn Project Brief highlighted that one of the challenges for CSOs in engaging with regional food security policy was often their lack of familiarity with the...
Lesotho + 6 more
Civil society and regional food security, Project Brief No. 1
The Look, Listen & Learn Pilot Project The Lethal Mix? According to the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, addressing the UN Security Council in July 2005, southern Africa was suffering...
Zambia Vulnerability and Needs Assessment
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Zambia and the entire southern sub-region experienced drought during the 2004/05 agricultural season. Two thirds of Zambia, mainly the south western parts, was badly affected by...
Mozambique: Donors and government both criticized, Report no. 86
Report no. 86 by Joseph Hanlon Mozambique has failed to meet almost any of its targets for governance, justice or corruption control, but its performance over the past year was still "satisfactory",...
A note on food security and land tenure security in Lesotho
Stephen Turner and Martin Adams* Some definitions Food security refers to 'access by all people at all times to sufficient food for an active and healthy life'.1 Land tenure security refers to secure...
South Africa + 6 more
Reflections on humanitarian development assistance: The challenge of using evidence-based analysis to guide interventions in Southern Africa
Workshop report - Save the Children (UK) / SARPN Introductory comments by the organisers Greg Ramm, SC-UK regional coordinator The challenge we face is to use evidence to reflect on what we are doing...
Malawi + 5 more
Southern Africa: Scoping study towards DFIDSA's Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme
Executive Summary Analysts generally agree that the poor weather that was the immediate cause of the harvest failures of 2002 was not the only cause of the crisis. Its depth owed a great deal more to...
Relief and recovery in Zimbabwe: Food security in the current humanitarian crisis
No-one working in the public health, education or social sectors in Zimbabwe in the 1980s would have predicted the breadth and depth of the country.s current humanitarian crisis. At the time of...
Poverty Brief Mar 2003: Hunger and Food Security
On 20 February SARPN hosted a discussion on the hunger crisis in Southern Africa. Francis Ng'ambi of the Malawi Economic Justice Network spoke on the Causes and Consequences of the Crisis in Malawi...
The decision of the Zambian government to ban genetically modified food aid
This draft paper has been posted with permission of the author. Note that it is not to be cited without permission. An earlier version was presented to a workshop of the Research Committee 24...