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The year 2008 has seen significant global humanitarian challenges ranging from devastating natural disasters, escalating food and oil prices to worsening conflict situations. In recent decades, the number and severity of natural disasters has increased

In order to control the breeding process of desert locusts, the countries hosting recession areas carry out surveys. This document summarizes the findings of the process carried out from 26 January to 2 January 2003 in an area between Egypt and Sudan. It

Even if the Desert Locust has been the most feared agricultural pest in the northern part of Africa for thousands of years, the threat it posed to the rural food security in marginal subsistence areas and its impacts on the welfare of the farming

The objective of this study is to: study whether the agricultural sectors in some African countries suffered from DL invasions of the Eighties and Nineties, analyze the socioeconomic impacts of DL, discuss the transition of DL invasions, study campaigns

This report presents the assessment of the Lake Chad Basin, which is located in one of the poorest and most drought prone regions in the World. Climatic variability and poor water governance has threatened the ecological and socio-economic integrity of

This publication is devoted to women pastoralists, their knowledge of and contributions to sustainable land management, and the coping mechanisms they have developed in their struggle to survive. It is a call to action to support them by increasing their

Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

This issue includes 4 articles on climate change adaptation related issues.

Latin America up in smoke: climate change in Latin America:
This first article describes climate change impacts in Latin America and explains how to ensure climate change

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