A New way of life on the Dawa
14 December, 2011: Drought is making it difficult for herding families in southern Ethiopia to earn a living from their livestock. Some people have decided to try a new approach: irrigated farming. And they are tapping the Dawa River for water.
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East Africa is facing the worst food crisis of the 21st Century. Across Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, 12 million people are in dire need of food, clean water, and basic sanitation. Loss of life on a massive scale is a very real risk, and the crisis is set to worsen over the coming months, particularly for pastoralist communities.
It is no coincidence that the worst affected areas are those suffering from entrenched poverty due to marginalisation, conflict and lack of investment. While severe drought has undoubtedly led to the huge scale of the disaster, this crisis has been caused by people and policies, as much as by weather patterns. An adequate response to the current crisis must not only meet urgent humanitarian needs, but also address these underlying problems.
International agency Oxfam says governments and donors must act with greater urgency in the face of a deteriorating crisis and rising needs in East Africa. Donors must move beyond promises and immediately turn money pledged into action on the ground, as more than half a million people are at risk of starvation, the agency said.
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This fishy business provides an income and source of food for families in PNG.
New Zealander Janna Hamilton spent two weeks in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, near the border with Somalia. Janna was the Humanitarian Media Officer for Oxfam International, the coalition of 15 Oxfam affiliates from around the world. In Dadaab, Janna saw first hand the food crisis and famine that is affecting people across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya – as well as Oxfam’s effort to save lives and make families less vulnerable to future crises.
Isolated communities across Vanuatu’s dispersed islands can now access internet-based emails using a combination of adapted short-wave radios and solar power. Oxfam’s partner, the Vanuatu Rural Development Training Centres’ Association (VRDTCA), runs the Yumi Konek project, which translates from Bislama as ‘We connect’.
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