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  • Is Africa selling out its farmers? 12 Nov 2009 01:30 GMT
    ... BAKO, Ethiopia/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – For centuries, farmers like Berhanu ... east to breed higher yielding and more drought- and pest-resistant strains of everything from maize and cassava ...

  • Food Shortage in Guatemala Affects Millions 12 Nov 2009 01:13 GMT
    ... need of food due to a disastrous drought and crop failure. Guatemala’s President Alvaro Colom has declared ... since the 1980s when a famine in Ethiopia killed an estimated one million people. AmeriCares ...

  • Ethiopia opposition says food aid kept from members 11 Nov 2009 13:40 GMT
    ... party members get aid * 13 million Ethiopians rely on aid * Government says allegations ... food-for-work scheme. Aid workers say a five-year drought is afflicting more than 23 million people in seven ...

  • Satellites can help monitor and manage African droughts 11 Nov 2009 11:31 GMT
    ... Satellites can help monitor and manage African droughts The 2005 drought in Africa, spotted using data from ... and headline-grabbing famines of the mid-1980s in Ethiopia and Sudan have not yet been repeated. ...

  • "Climate witnesses" don't want handouts 11 Nov 2009 16:57 GMT
    ... a farmer from the Tororo district of drought-affected eastern Uganda. "We are asking that they ... rely. Small-scale farmers from Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Ethiopia and South Africa also gave moving accounts ... communities were coping with the cycle of floods and droughts that has gripped their homelands to ...

  • Preparing to mitigate negative impact of El Niño 11 Nov 2009 13:06 GMT
    ... Authority on Development (IGAD) and World Bank. "Drought and floods affect directly or indirectly millions of people each ... key socio-economic sectors. Experts from Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan and ...

  • Bangladesh PM says failure not acceptable in Copenhagen 11 Nov 2009 07:30 GMT
    ... countries to help it adapt to increasing floods, cyclones and droughts caused by climate change. The video conference, ... Calderon, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi also participated. ...

  • Hasina urges rich to help countries hit by climate 11 Nov 2009 22:54 GMT
    ... countries to help it adapt to increasing floods, cyclones and droughts caused by climate change. The video conference, ... Calderon, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi also participated. "> ...

  • Africa's poor to suffer due high food prices 11 Nov 2009 20:10 GMT
    ... particularly acute in East Africa, where prolonged drought and mounting conflict have left an estimated 20 million ... highly or extremely food insecure, and in Ethiopia the number of people in need of ...

  • Somalia: hardship compounded by heavy rain 10 Nov 2009 11:50 GMT
    ... The views expressed are the author's alone. Heavy rains are severely affecting thousands of families displaced ... is for rains in Somalia and the Ethiopian highlands to continue and even intensify in ... After several consecutive crop failures caused by drought, many destitute farmers no longer have enough seed ...

  • Rift in Ethiopia to form new ocean 7 Nov 2009 11:11 GMT
    ... rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia in 2005, scientists have speculated the rift ... map he drew of when and where earthquakes happened in the region fit tremendously well ...

  • Kenya battles recurring drought 7 Nov 2009 16:12 GMT
    ... — There is not supposed to be drought here, a few hours drive east of the Kenyan ... Twenty-five years after a BBC report from Ethiopia kick-started Band Aid and then Live Aid ...

  • CRS intern shares experiences in Ethiopia 6 Nov 2009 02:03 GMT
    ... Beth Briggs talked about her experiences in Ethiopia while interning for Catholic Relief Services this ... lower level areas, has a history of drought and agricultural difficulties. Due to erratic and/or little rainfall, ...

  • Droughts, rising population a sad mix in Kenya 8 Nov 2009 08:14 GMT
    ... the pressures of increasingly severe and frequent droughts, coupled with a rapidly rising population. In one ... eastern Africa and the Horn region. Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia have been particularly hard hit. ...

  • It only took days for a giant crack to form in Afar Ethiopia 8 Nov 2009 19:14 GMT
    ... a giant crack in the north of Ethiopia in 2005 could have been a scene ... crack formed when Dabbahu erupted in 2005. Volcanic eruptions in the Afar region to this day. ...


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