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Improved harvest forecast for Sahel region: Good news but governments and UN should not take the foot off the gas
Sep 07, 2012 -
Oxfam Ambassador Baaba Maal aims to raise funds for Sahel food crisis
Jul 30, 2012 -
In the Sahel region, resilience can save lives
Jun 15, 2012 -
Oxfam announces Baaba Maal as its new Global Ambassador
May 16, 2012 -
Millions of people across the Sahel will be left hungry in the coming months unless multi-million dollar funding shortage for crisis response is filled, aid organizations warn
Apr 23, 2012 -
Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
Mar 30, 2012
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- Sahel food crisis
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- Food crisis in West Africa
- The Sahel region of West and Central Africa is in the grip of a food crisis. Oxfam and our partner organizations are working throughout the region to get help to struggling communities.
- Oxfam Fact Sheet: GROW Campaign
- You might think hunger is about too many people and too little food. That is not the case. Hunger is about power. Its roots lie in inequalities to resources and opportunities.
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- Hunger in the Sahel
- Farmers, herders, and displaced people in West Africa are struggling to survive a food crisis.
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- Survival strategies in the Sahel
- In the Sahel region of West Africa, where more than 18 million people are facing a food crisis, people in Burkina Faso are digging for flecks of gold to sell. What they earn is enough to buy only a small amount of food.
- Sahel food crisis puts 18 million people at risk
- You have the power to change the future. Now is the time to act, and ensure that families in the Sahel region of West Africa get the help they need to weather this crisis.
- West Africa food crisis 2012:15 million at risk
- As a funding for the crisis lags, millions of people will be left hungry in the coming months unless the gap is filled.
- Baaba Maal speaks out on the Sahel
- The Senegalese singer, Baaba Maal, calls on the world to respond to a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa.
- When I'm hungry, my heart beats quickly
- In the face of a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa, Oxfam is supporting an array of projects, including women-run cooperative market gardens.
- The Sahel: a food crisis looms
- Low rainfall, poor harvests, and high prices are creating serious problems for herders and farmers in West Africa.
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Sahel food crisis: Where are we at the end of 2012?
Good rainfall and better harvests have provided some relief, but challenges still remain as families work hard to recover.
Sahel food crisis: "Now I have peace"
Rather than distribute food to the hungry in Senegal, Oxfam partners are providing something even more valuable in an emergency: cash.
Solidarity and sharing: How Chadians cope in a food crisis
When one family in a community receives food during a distribution, many others often share a portion of it.
Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
Women in Burkina Faso are growing produce to feed their families and to sell, but getting access to enough water for the enterprise is a daily challenge.
Sahel food crisis: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
Maal visits drought-affected communities to raise awareness in growing Sahel crisis
Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
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