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The lean season in the Sahel region runs from May to August and is typically the period of greatest food insecurity in an endemically food-insecure area. This year, amid…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270693
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Food shortages and insecurity in the Sahel.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB233763
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Chad closed its borders with Sudan and the Central African Republic. Closures have had a direct economic impact in Sahelian border zones, which are often vulnerable to food…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB253752
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With populations growing by 3-4% annually, physical infrastructure requires significant expansion. Mobile telephony has been a major success, but there is much to be done to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB265184
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Sahelian societies are overwhelmingly rural and dependent on agriculture and pastoralism. Farmer and herder lifestyles can complement each other, but climate change and population…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270010
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However, the context is crucial. This region, where reserves of water, arable land and vegetation are vulnerable to climate change, also sees rates of population growth and human…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB263539
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Affected communities face long-term economic consequences, and their governments -- already resource-poor, and with budgets stretched thin by insecurity, corruption and COVID-19…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB256255
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Sahel, COVID-19 and hunger.
African climate change strategies.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB249635
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Competition between the jihadist groups remains tense and insecurity is being stoked further by intercommunal conflict over land and water resources that overstretched security…