Food Security

Understanding Rio+20

JOHANNESBURG, 3 April 2012 (IRIN Global) - A Nobel laureate, a Swedish environmentalist’s idea, the “doughnut” concept, Scandinavia’s sense of social capital, measuring the quality of life, and valuing the oceans are just some of the things trending in the run-up to the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development due to be held on 20-22 June 2012. full report

SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Time running out for “forgotten” refugees

 JAMAM, 3 April 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Under the sweltering sun, women at Jamam refugee camp, in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, dig through the clay of a dried up waterhole in their search for water. full report

CLIMATE CHANGE: Farmers and forecasts

 BINGERVILLE/DAKAR, 2 April 2012 (IRIN Global) - Unpredictable rainfall in parts of Côte d’Ivoire cost some farmers over half of their harvest in 2011 producers told IRIN, but, armed with more knowledge about how to get weather reports and interpret them, they might still have been able to boost their output, say agricultural specialists. full report

EGYPT: Fuel shortage threatens bread supplies

 CAIRO, 2 April 2012 (IRIN Middle East) - It has been three months since a fuel shortage hit Egypt, and people’s patience is wearing thin amid fears the crisis could disrupt the production of subsidized bread. full report

SOMALIA: Drought affecting thousands in Somaliland

 HARGEISA, 30 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Officials in the self-declared republic of Somaliland, northwestern Somalia, are appealing for food aid and potable water for thousands of families who have lost their livelihoods in the current drought. full report

ETHIOPIA: Late rains threaten food security

 ADDIS ABABA, 30 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Late and erratic mid-February to May (`Belg') rains could significantly reduce crop yields in central and southern Ethiopia and adversely affect food security, warn officials. full report

Briefing: War and peace – Mali repeats the cycle

BAMAKO, 29 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - During a visit to Bamako, capital of Mali, on 26 February, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé observed that the Malian government would be best advised to sit down and negotiate with the MNLA (Mouvement National pour la liberation de l’Azawad), which is fighting to carve out an independent state in the north. full report

MAURITANIA: “Nothing left but dust and sand”

 KAEDI, 29 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Hunger has come again to the Sahel. “Since yesterday I have only drunk water,” said Houley Dia, 60, a widow who lives in Houdallah, a village of the Fula ethnic group in southern Mauritania on the border with Senegal. “I have lived through hard times before - no rain, animal diseases, locust swarms - but this year is worse than ever,” she told IRIN. full report

KENYA: Fertilizer shortage could exacerbate food insecurity

 NAIROBI, 29 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Those Kenyan farmers who normally use fertilizer to boost yields could be forced to go without this season (March-May) unless the government moves quickly to boost supplies. full report

SAHEL: Malian refugees risk being “forgotten”

 DAKAR, 28 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Mali is facing its “worst humanitarian crisis for 20 years” due to a combination of food insecurity affecting around three million people, and conflict-induced displacement in the north. full report

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