The small-scale irrigation component of Oxfam’s Sustainable Livelihoods project in Eritrea emphasized participation in design and implementation. Results showed increases in production.Read More

African Women Rising's (AWR) tailored and locally appropriate support packages to women helped them in the setting up of kitchen gardens not only to increase food availability and strengthen nutritional outcomes but also to contribute to their income from the sale of surplus vegetable production.Read More

Oxfam supported communities impacted by hailstorms in cultivating alternative crops like chickpeas to help them take advantage of the last cycle of the rainy season and reduce their crop losses.Read More

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) used vouchers to increase community access to seeds and improve food security.Read More

Increasing households’ access to quality seeds, farming tools, and locally adapted extension services helped conflict-affected households in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) significantly increase their food consumption and overall food self-sufficiency.Read More

Humanitarian Actors for Grass Root Initiatives (HAGI) used the sociocultural and demographic details collected using a baseline survey to identify the right combination of activities to support food-insecure households in Rumbek East, South Sudan in meeting their short-term recovery as well as longer-term economic improvement goals.Read More

Using a combination of past data on rainfall trends and their impact of food and nutrition security, and forecasts based on global models, the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) in Ethiopia has developed two likely scenarios for food security and associated recommendations to address nutritional gaps, livelihoods, and conflict management.Read More

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) preparedness and mitigation measures, which take into account an analysis of past hazard events, seasonal weather patterns, and their potential impact on production activities, have resulted in development of an early action plan to address humanitarian crises in the Somali peninsula in the Horn of...Read More

Agriculture specialists working on longer-term projects in the region developed a responsive package of assistance to support internally displaced people (IDPs) to strengthen their food security. The bundling approach from Samaritan’s Purse helped IDP communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) access a wide range of necessary inputs like seeds, farm tools, and...Read More