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Climate crisis fuels drought and severe hunger across East Africa

The climate crisis is fuelling one of the worst droughts on record across the Horn of Africa, with up to 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing severe hunger. Find out more about the

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Walking the talk: Why and how African governments should transform their agriculture spending.

In 2003, the Maputo Declaration of the African Union stated that, within five years, 10 per cent of the budgets of member states would be dedicated to agriculture. Ten years on, despite spending

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What constitutes agriculture spending?

Public spending on agriculture in Africa is critical to promoting economic growth and the reduction of poverty. GDP growth originating in agriculture is much more effective in reducing poverty than

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Boosting Non State Actor participation in CAADP

This is a presentation given by Buba Khan, ActionAid International's Africa Right to Food Coordinator, at the 7th CAADP Partnership Platform on 24 March 2011 in Yaounde, Cameroon.

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Action for Children's Rights in Education (ACRE) - Policy Brief

A policy brief based on a comparative analysis of a research undertaken in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, using ActionAid’s Promoting Rights in Schools Framework as part of the Action for

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CAADP UPDATE, Issue 1

CAADP UPDATE, a quarterly newsletter produced by the International Right to Food Team, highlights key events and issues around agricultural discourse in Africa, to update countries on ActionAid’s

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As rich countries shirk responsibility for the climate crisis, families in Malawi are boiling mangoes to survive

Chikondi Chabvuta, ActionAid’s regional humanitarian adviser for Southern Africa, reports on the food and climate crises devastating communities across Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Fertile Ground: How governments and donors can halve hunger by supporting small farmers

Empowering local farmers to produce more food for local markets is the bedrock of global food security. Small farmers, the majority of whom are women, are responsible for 90 per cent of the food grown

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SelFISH Europe: How the Economic Partnership Agreements would further contribute to the decline of fish stocks and exacerbate the food crisis in Senegal

Against a background of unprecedented food shortages, including in Senegal, this study aims to analyse how the Economic Partnership Agreements currently under negotiation between the EU and West

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Making her own choices: young women’s rights in poor urban areas

This programme framework is informed by three country level and international reviews of the literature related to young women, livelihoods and sexual and reproductive health, and empirical research