East Africa Food Crisis: Ceel-Dheere
Ceel-Dheere, a rural pastoralist community located around 45km (2-hours’ drive) northeast of Burao, Somaliland, has been deeply impacted by one of the worst droughts on record in the Horn of Africa
World leaders land at COP25 as Africa faces climate and food crises
This is ActionAid's press statement on the opening of the COP25 climate negotiations in Madrid in December 2019.
Agroecology, Empowerment and Resilience
West Africa is highly vulnerable to the impact of climate change. This mid-term review of the Agroecology and Resilience project provides key lessons for projects seeking to build resilience to
Doubly Devastating: Local communities disproportionately affected by food, fuel, and fertiliser price rises
The fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is being felt globally as disruption to supply from two of the world’s major exporters of wheat, maize, fuel and fertiliser is causing prices to soar.
New research: Local food and fuel prices more than triple in some of the world’s most at risk communities
The cost of food, fuel and fertiliser in some of the world’s poorest communities is soaring, with families spending double, triple and in some cases nearly four times what they were paying before
The wrong model for resilience
The G7-backed African Risk Capacity (ARC) drought insurance policy was an experiment that failed Malawi, and in particular its women, in the face of a drought that need not have become a disaster. The
