Tag: famine
Vote now for the best/worst charity ads of 2017
Every year, the ‘rusty radiator’ site runs a poll on the year’s best/worst aid agency ads. Let’s start with the good ones. My favourite has to be War Child’s batman video – very moving The others are a smart Save the Children US take on children and Christmas gifts, a very knowing Below the Line film […]
Read More »Drought in Africa – How the system to fund humanitarian aid is still hardwired to fail
Guest post from Debbie Hillier, Oxfam Humanitarian Policy Adviser Nearly 11 million people across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are facing alarming levels of food insecurity. In Somalia, deaths as a result of drought have already been recorded, and as its next rains are forecast to be poor, famine is a real possibility. But why are […]
Read More »Getting Somalia Wrong and other background reading for today's big conference
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How can we prevent the next famine? The case for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Ending Hunger Now – what's missing from Josette Sheeran's talk?
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25 years after the Ethiopian famine, what have we learned?
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