{"id":5505,"date":"2017-03-20T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2017-03-27T17:10:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:10:40","slug":"foodcrisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/foodcrisis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa Food Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Your support is needed in combatting the world\u2019s largest humanitarian crisis<\/p><\/div>
Self Help Africa’s expertise is in agricultural development. We believe that a response at farm household level is vital, in helping\u00a0vulnerable families\u00a0to respond to this current food crisis in an effective and targeted way.<\/p>\n
BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP<\/strong><\/p>\n WHAT THIS ACTION WILL MEAN<\/strong><\/p>\n ETHIOPIA –\u00a0is experiencing its worst drought in decades, with more than 10 million people in need of food and aid. Ensuring that households have seed to plant will mean that in the months ahead, households can harvest the food that their families will need to recover from the current crisis.<\/p>\n KENYA –\u00a0green-gram and pigeon pea seed is being distributed to 4,500 households NOW will mean that these families (approx. 30,000 people) will have close to 200 kilos (a 10-months supply) of nutrient-rich food available to them, in a little over three months time.<\/p>\n MALAWI – Just weeks away from harvest-time, our efforts to combat fall armyworm<\/a> will ensure that thousands of farming families can combat this invasion, and salvage their vital food harvest before it is too late. Our responses are critical, and can provide a lasting solution for vulnerable families, for the months and years ahead.<\/p>\n This week, the United Nations declared the food crisis in East Africa as the world\u2019s largest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. \u00a0Lend your support, and help us to help rural families in three of the most vulnerable regions to combat this crisis, and create a future that is free from hunger.<\/strong><\/p>\n * Reports\u00a0from Ethiopia show that households provided with drought tolerant seed varieties by Self Help Africa had harvested\u00a050% of their normal food crop, as compared to an almost complete crop failure experienced by others in the region.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div> Self Help Africa is responding to the worst food crisis that has been experienced in East Africa in decades<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,652,681,677,637],"tags":[163,785,778,115,783,501,70,224,782,784,67,780,211,779,259],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture-nutrition","category-ethiopia","category-kenya","category-malawi","category-news","tag-africa","tag-appeal","tag-armyworm","tag-east-africa","tag-emergency","tag-famine","tag-farming","tag-food","tag-food-crisis","tag-humanitarian","tag-hunger","tag-invasion","tag-malawi","tag-pest","tag-poverty"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
Help us to save lives in East Africa<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"