China: are changes afoot for cereals?
This Project Briefing provides an overview of China's impact on the world cereals market and examines whether recent changes will impact on current Chinese production.
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Navigating the maize story
It’s not so long since agricultural commodities markets were an area of specialist knowledge shared only by a few hundred experts across the world. Since the food price spike of 2008, however, interest has gone global and news stories continue to examine future forecasts.
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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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Cash Transfer Programming in emergencies
As Cyprus takes over the presidency of the council of the European Union, the council held a workshop on cash transfer programming in emergencies. Sarah Bailey presented an HPG report: The impact of cash transfers on nutrition in emergency and transitional contexts.
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Cash transfer recipient in Cambodia
Helpage cash transfer programme to support older people in Cambodia
License: Creative Commons
Credit: Mayur Paul/ HelpAge International 2012
Source: FlickrBigger, better, faster: New learning in cash transfer programming
This event launches Issue 54 of the Humanitarian Exchange magazine from the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN), on the theme New Learning in Cash Transfer Programming. Speakers in London and Nairobi, drawing on their own experience and analysis, will discuss a wide range of new learning and issues associated with cash transfer programming highlighted in Issue 54 including scaling up, improving response analysis,and overcoming internal barriers to institutionalizing cash programming.
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The US offer to North Korea: What kind of food aid was that?
The US offered 240,000 tons of food aid to North Korea as part of the “Leap Day understanding”, announced on 29 February 2012. This would, apparently, see the supply of 20,000 tons of food each month from the US for a year, with USAID working out the details. But before any agreement was finalised, the offer was suspended on 13 April 2012 after North Korea attempted to launch a satellite – an act considered to breach the understanding. So what kind of food aid operation was being envisaged?
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Local institutions, livelihoods and vulnerability: lessons from Afghanistan
Adam Pain and Paula KantorThis working paper examines the variability in the impact of social relationships on the provision of public goods in different villages in Afghanistan and argues this variability has not been captured in policy and programming responses. -
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. -
South Sudanese show support for national oil shutdown
South Sudanese citizens show support for their Government’s decision today to shut down all national oil production, effectively cutting off the flow of crude oil from South Sudan to the neighbouring Republic of Sudan.
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Credit: UN Photo/Isaac Billy
Source: UN MultimediaJuba calling: what next for South Sudan?
Following the decision in January to shut down its oil production, South Sudan's government has introduced austerity measures to compensate for the loss of revenue. Juba has announced that spending on everything except salaries will be halved.
This event, jointly organised by HPG and the Associate Parliamentary Group on Sudan and South Sudan (APG), brings together panels in London and Juba (via videoconference) to explore the urgent humanitarian challenges which lie ahead for the world's newest nation. -
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'.