Research Watch
Averting Famine, Acting Early
The Debate - Averting Famine, Acting Early
Averting Famine, Acting Early - The debate
Are famine and nutrition crises preventable? How? Who is accountable? A debate with Fatima Jibrell, Founder and Director of Horn of Africa Relief, Stephen Devereux, Development Economist, Institute of Development Studies and As Sy, UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Director.
Expert View
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Five ways to build famine resilience
Olivier De Schutter -- UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
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Innovations to end hunger: from farmers to fisherman
M. S. Swaminathan, the "Father of the Green Revolution in India".
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Tackling food security crises in Africa, lessons learnt and unlearnt
Angela Raven-Roberts, PhD - Executive Director of Humanitarian Accountability Partnership
Look Out For
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Averting Famine, Acting Early
There is no Look Out For this month. It will return in the next edition.
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Break the cycle of disasters for the children of the Sahel and act now, says UNICEF
N'DJAMENA, Chad, 4 April 2012 - As malnutrition reaches emergency levels across the Sahel with at least one million children at risk, UNICEF’s Executive Director Anthony Lake on a visit to the region today called for an urgent escalation of humanitarian efforts to stop the crisis and the cycle of disasters. "This is a region always on the verge of a crisis. Families and children have been weakened from the drought in 2010 and 2005. Now there is growing insecurity in a number of countries with hundreds of thousands of people displaced, rising food prices, and a bad harvest," said Lake during a visit to western Chad today. Read the press release
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Stepping up the emergency response
UNICEF is stepping up assistance in Chad, where hundreds of thousands of children face malnutrition and calls for an urgent escalation of humanitarian efforts to stop the crisis and the cycle of disasters.
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Why is equity in health care crucial for the well being of children?
The issues are tackled by Dr Cesar Victora, President of the IEA, Dr Janet Vega, Director of Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health Policy, Chile, and Dr Mickey Chopra, UNICEF's Chief of Health.
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Why hasn't the world embraced ECD?
A debate with Nobel Laureate Prof. J. Heckman, the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, Dr. R. Horton, and the Chief of UNICEF's ECD Unit, Dr. N. Ulkuer.
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What must governments and industry do to combat the risks faced by young people on the internet?
A debate with John Carr, UN senior adviser; Peter Davies, Chief Executive at the UK's CEOP; and Nevine Tewfik, Research Director at Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies.