This is a guest post by Roland Berehoudougou,?disaster risk manager for Plan International?s West Africa Region.?He explains the numerous factors that came together and conspired against the people of the Sahel, transforming the lean season into an emergency.? Photo: Roland Berehoudougou. When Plan International and other aid agencies sounded the alarm bells and appealed for public assistance to finance an emergency response to the Sahel Food Crisis, there were those sceptics who saw this crisis as an annual chronic food shortage which was being exploited by aid agencies to raise money. Those?skeptics?were wrong. So what is an emergency? What is a food crisis?
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Finding solutions and avoiding handouts in the Sahel
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- Big Decisions today on Food Crisis in the Sahel: here?s the background
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Posted by Linda Raftree on Jul 26 2012. Filed under Aid & Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entrySource: http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/07/26/finding-solutions-and-avoiding-handouts-in-the-sahel/
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