Latest additions to the knowledge base

This brief sets out some key barriers to be overcome in the humanitarian sphere, highlighting the need for a more tailored approach to anticipatory action in dryland contexts, explicitly oriented toward pastoral economies and livelihoods.

This article explores the recent history of early warning systems in Kenya, determining key features of the entangled political, technical and conceptual processes that prefigure contemporary drought management there.

This policy brief shares experiences of using crowdsourced data to observe changes in food security attributable to drought in hard-to-reach and fragile areas of Ethiopia and Kenya.

This cartoon-infused summary of insights from the Academic Alliance on Anticipatory Action (4As) research project aims to understand the design and implementation of anticipatory action.

In this framework, FAO has developed a Compendium of experiences and good practices from focus countries, namely Bangladesh, Guatemala, the Niger and Zimbabwe.

This desk study aims to bridge pastoralist knowledge, local practices, and external interventions by synthesizing literature on pastoral knowledge and practices from the Greater Horn of Africa, Sudano-Sahel regions, and beyond.

In 2022, the pilot of an anticipatory action framework in Niger, demonstrated that acting early – before people experienced a drought’s full impact – enabled them to preserve land, save livestock and avoid negative coping strategies.

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Heatwave Deaths Are Avoidable’ and highlights the fact that we know enough about how to avoid heatwave-caused death.