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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. Mothers wait to be seen in a therapeutic feeding centre in Maradi Region, Niger
    Mothers wait to be seen in a therapeutic feeding centre in Maradi Region, Niger

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: UN Photo/WFP/Phil Behan
    Source: UN Multimedia

    The crisis in the Sahel – time for a new drumbeat?

    Event - Public event - 31 October 2012 15:00 - 17:00 (GMT+00)

    This event launches the 55th edition of Humanitarian Exchange, the theme of which is the crisis in the Sahel. Drawing on the articles in this issue as well as their own experience and research speakers in Dakar, Ghana, and London will reflect on and debate these issues as well as respond to questions and comments from our audiences in the room and online.

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  3. UK launch of ‘Ending the Everyday Emergency'

    Event - Public event - 17 July 2012 14:00 - 15:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    World Vision and Save the Children, in association with the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) and the Sahel Working Group, invite you to discuss the findings of "Ending the Everyday Emergency", a new report on the challenge of strengthening resilience in the Sahel. Wendy Fenton, HPN Coordinator will be chairing the event.

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  4. Escaping the hunger cycle: pathways to resilience in the Sahel

    Event - Public event - 21 October 2011 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

    As the world focuses on the East Africa food crisis, what lessons have been learnt since the last two severe food crises in the Sahel region of West Africa in 2005 and 2010? What has to change so that every drought does not result in a new humanitarian crisis? As we hear of failed rains in Niger this year, how can aid be more effective to prevent the next food crisis?

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  5. Millennium Development Goals Report Card: Learning from progress

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 20 June 2010

    A summary of initial findings from an ongoing review of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which will include a set of league tables. The key message is that progress is possible, with a number of countries making real achievements.

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  9. Livestock, Land use and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 December 1994
    Pastoral Development Network Papers 37a
    David Bourn and William Wint

    This paper focuses on extracts from a recent comparative analysis of livestock and land use surveys across a range of agro-climatic conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, based on information from systematic low level aerial reconnaissance and complementary ground studies in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan and Chad, between 1980 and 1993.

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