Event: CBD Southern Indian Ocean Workshop to Facilitate Description of EBSAs
biodiversity-l.iisd.org | 15 May 2012
This workshop is convened by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). It aims to facilitate the description of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs), and will include one day...
 Seychelles | Somalia | South Africa | Biodiversity | Coastal and Marine Issues | Conservation

African solidarity for Sahel countries and Horn of Africa urged
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | 27 Apr 2012
Speaking at the opening of FAO's 27th Regional Conference Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso made a "vibrant appeal" for Africa to show solidarity with countries in the African Sahel region and the Horn of Africa where millions of people are currently facing a food crisis.
 Congo | the Democratic Republic of the | Somalia

Communiqu': Somalia becomes seventy-third signatory of the Nagoya Protocol
cbd.int | 10 Jan 2012
On 9 January 2012, Somalia became the seventy-third signatory of theNagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arisingfrom Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).The Nagoya Protocol, which was opened for signature in February 2011, will enter into force 90 days afterdeposit of the fiftieth instrument of ratification.
 Somalia | Biodiversity

HORN OF AFRICA: Human Trafficking on the Rise Amid Drought and Famine
ips.org | 01 Nov 2011
RIFT VALLEY, Kenya, Nov 1 (IPS) – Amina Shakir (not her real name) fled the drought and famine in Somalia for a better life in Kenya. But she did so illegally, placing her faith in the hands of a criminal network headed by Mukhalis or agents in Swahili. In the end her faith was misplaced as she was...
 Somalia | Drought | Environmental Impacts | Food Security

Africa Analysis: Disaster warning not just about science
SCIDEV.NET | 05 Oct 2011
The East Africa famine calls into question the wisdom of investing in early warning systems without improving take-up, writes Linda Nordling.
 Somalia | Agriculture | Drought

KENYA-SOMALIA: Hungry for learning in Dadaab camps
IRIN News | 28 Mar 2011
In one of the largest and oldest refugee settlements in the world, education is a luxury denied most of the 90,739 children who live there. Set up at the outset of Somalias civil war in 1991 to accommodate 90,000 refugees, three camps near the northeastern Kenyan town of Dadaab - Hagadera, Ifo and Dagahaley - are now home to more than three times that number, and persistent conflict in Somalia, from where 95 percent of the refugees originate, means the population grows daily.
 Kenya | Somalia | Food Security | Planning and Management of Development | Poverty Reduction

Somalia: Monthly Market Analysis
feedproxy.google.com | 17 Mar 2011
The Somali Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures changes in prices of a fixed minimum basket of goods and services, maintained its upward trend for the fifth month in succession in all regions in February 2011. Month on month inflation increased in all zones, mainly due to the rising prices of sorghum, sugar and milk (Northeast – 9%, Northwest – 6%, South – 5% and Central –2%).
 Somalia | Food Security | Planning and Management of Development | Research

Somalia: Nutrition Analysis Post Deyr 2010/11
feedproxy.google.com | 25 Feb 2011
The FSNAU Post Deyr 2010/11 nutrition situation analysis depicts a deterioration in the nutrition situation across most population groups in Somalia from six months ago (Map 1 and 2). From October to December 2010, FSNAU and partners conducted a total of 25 representative nutrition surveys across Somali rural livelihoods and internally displaced population groups.
 Somalia | Agriculture | Food Security

UN relief chief warns of humanitarian disaster as drought ravages Somalia and Kenya
feedproxy.google.com | 17 Feb 2011
Severe drought in Somalia has exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in the country with more people becoming internally displaced and others moving into refugee camps across the border in Kenya, as food and water scarcity worsen, the top United Nations humanitarian official said today.
 Somalia | Agriculture | Drought | Food Security

SOMALIA: Aid Agencies Struggle to Access Communities as Drought Looms
AfricaFiles | 05 Feb 2011
Somalia is experiencing a drought that is estimated to increase the number of the already numerous 1.4 million internally displaced peoples (IDP's). It will be important for humanitarian agencies to establish preventative measures, as well as, "engage the various political groups that controlled different parts of Somalia in order to access populations under their control."
 Somalia | Drought | Food Security | Poverty Reduction