Loss and Damage financing can help African communities with drought

by Jameel Observatory | Feb 27, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Financing, Horn of Africa, Pastoralism

Guyo Roba, head of the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action, explains how loss and damage funding could provide the most benefit to African communities suffering from drought. Photo Credit: Colin Crowley/Save the Children:...

Early action gets aid to communities before the vultures arrive

by Jameel Observatory | Dec 9, 2022 | About, Anticipatory Action, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, ILRI, Kenya, Pastoralism, Save the Children, Somalia, University of Edinburgh

People in drylands sometimes associate humanitarian aid workers with vultures – noticing that they arrive around the same time when animals have already died and the response is too late. A more promising approach is to anticipate droughts and other shocks,...

Livestock insurance for East Africa pastoralists a long term focus of ILRI

by Jameel Observatory | Jul 18, 2022 | Eastern Africa, ILRI, Kenya, Livestock, Partners, Pastoralism, Projects, Resilience, Somalia

The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action combines the local knowledge and concerns of communities facing on-the-ground threats of hunger with innovations in data science and humanitarian action;  teaming up to devise solutions that can help predict,...

Jameel Observatory approach critiqued

by Peter Ballantyne | Oct 29, 2021 | Climate Change, Data, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Food Security, Pastoralism, Resilience

The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action brings together leading research and humanitarian agencies to help tackle the growing threat to people in the world’s drylands posed by the increasing severity and frequency of climate-related disasters. As a first...

Jameel Observatory launched

by Jameel Observatory | Sep 21, 2021 | Climate Change, Data, Drylands, Early Action, Food Security, News, Pastoralism, Resilience

The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action has been created to help tackle the growing threat to people in the world’s drylands posed by the increasing severity and frequency of climate-related disasters. The new venture brings together leading research and...