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“Recovery lending” helps disaster-stricken African farmers get back on track

14 August 2017

When disaster strikes, credit can be impossible for African farmers to get. Is “recovery lending” the solution?

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This week’s humanitarian outlook
4 August 2017
Which humanitarian topics are on IRIN’s radar and should be on yours? Check out our curation of upcoming events, topical reports, opinion, and quality journalism:
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Mind the gap: Why Zimbabwean researchers need to work with farmers
4 August 2017
A key response to the droughts bedeviling Zimbabwe’s farmers is within reach. Why isn’t it being grasped?

Climate-friendly farming solution fizzles in Zimbabwe
18 July 2017 Feature
Sudan sanctions, Mosul, and Marawi: The Cheat Sheet
7 July 2017 News
Climate change? What climate change? Nigerian farmers not being reached on awareness
5 July 2017 Feature

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No good choices on Lake Victoria
4 July 2017
Lake Victoria once supported Africa's largest inland fishery. Thanks to poison, illegal nets and climate change, its bounty is dwindling
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In Kenya’s drylands, education is an insurance policy for some
29 June 2017
Making education a bigger part of the toolkit for farming communities adapting to climate change is important but no easy sell
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This week's humanitarian outlook
16 June 2017
Check out the humanitarian topics on IRIN’s radar and trawl through our curation of the best reports, opinion, and journalism you may have missed:
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IRIN receives Asia reporting awards
15 June 2017
The Society of Publishers in Asia gives IRIN top award for video reporting, honourable mention for human rights work
Analysis

FACT FILE: Climate change, food security, and adaptation
14 June 2017
A helpful guide for understanding the relationship between climate change and food security, and ideas for what can be done about it
Analysis

The deadly conflict tearing Nigeria apart (and it’s not Boko Haram)
13 June 2017
A bitter conflict between Fulani pastoralists and farmers is now claiming more lives than Boko Haram

From hateful ideologies to Macron’s climate lovefest: The Cheat Sheet
9 June 2017 News
Trump’s climate pullout could spell disaster for developing nations
5 June 2017 Analysis
The little shrub making a big difference in rural Senegal
5 June 2017 Feature
Trump budget cuts would cripple clean energy in developing nations
24 May 2017 Analysis
Vietnam’s response to climate change? A shrimp and mangrove cocktail
23 May 2017 Feature
A way of life under threat in Kenya as Lake Turkana shrinks
23 May 2017 Feature

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