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Displaying 3 of about 3 resultsLocal-level implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action remains a major challenge to achieve, which requires the active participation and involvement of local government actors at different levels of responsibility. It is at the local level that development planning is expected to first take place, and where disaster risk reduction must be first in…
Policy makers are set to agree on a continental programme of action to implement the Africa Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction - a programme that will protect lives and livelihoods from the risks of natural hazards. The first African Union Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction is taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 5-7 December…
The swarms of migratory locusts that are invading various African countries were anticipated as far back as last December. How could we have avoided the devastation experienced in northern Africa due to the plague?
We knew that the abundant rain that fell in the Sahel following the last rainy season would generate conditions favourable for locusts to…