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Cheap rice may well be a thing of the past according to this new ODI Briefing which says that growing pressure on land and water resources, coupled with population growth, may be pushing the world towards an era of higher prices.
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InterAction Forum 2013
The annual InterAction Forum seeks to provide a space for the leadership of NGOs, governments, philanthropy, corporations and civil society to engage and forge common solutions to improve the lives of the world’s poor and marginalized. Simon Levine spoke on a panel: "Resilience: How to Make it Meaningful?".
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A conceptual analysis of livelihoods and resilience: addressing the ‘insecurity of agency’
Adam Pain and Simon LevineThe debates on how aid investment can be reoriented towards supporting resilience are usually framed in terms of risk, and of people’s ability to cope with shocks. This HPG working paper argues that support to resilience and intelligent monitoring would be better based on a focus on the structural factors that prevent people from investing in their futures. -

Mothers wait to be seen in a therapeutic feeding centre in Maradi Region, Niger
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Credit: UN Photo/WFP/Phil Behan
Source: UN MultimediaThe crisis in the Sahel – time for a new drumbeat?
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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Humanitarian Assistance Webcast 12: DRR, Inc.: Can the Private Sector Revive Resilience?
This humanitarian assistance webcast brought together an expert panel, which included Simon Levine of the Humanitarian Policy Group, to examine the following questions:- Should the public or private sector lead investment in resilience building? What are the costs and benefits of each approach?
- How can the humanitarian and development communities work with the private sector on DRR while remaining impartial actors?
- How can the model of resilience building and DRR be replicated in areas where private investment is perceived as high risk due to factors such as violence?
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The relevance of ‘resilience’?
Simon Levine, Adam Pain, Sarah Bailey and Lilianne FanThis paper aims to introduce some practical realism to the current debates about ‘resilience’ which are increasingly dominating thinking about development, climate change adaptation and humanitarian aid. -
UK launch of ‘Ending the Everyday Emergency'
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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Rules of the range: natural resources management in Kenya–Ethiopia border areas
Simon Levine and Sara PavanelloThe policy brief studies the institutional aspects of natural resource management in Kenya-Ethiopia border areas. -
Improving emergency response
USAID organised meeting; Simon Levine presented findings from the Humanitarian Practice Network Paper 'System failure? Revisiting the problems of timely response to crises in the Horn of Africa' at a session entitled 'Improving Emergency Response'.
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Presentation of OCHA-led real time evaluation of the emergency response in Ethiopia
USAID organised meeting to present findings from OCHA-led real time evaluation of the emergency response in Ethiopia. Simon was one of the participants and presented HPN Network Paper 71: System Failure?










