KNOWLEDGE4POLICY - "COVID-19 could not have come at a worse time for vulnerable communities across West Africa"

West Africa and the Sahel region in particular have long been prone to droughts and food shortages, and over the past decade, rising insecurity. How is the situation now?

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Global Food and Nutrition Security

date: 28/04/2020

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This is a complex region - hit by chronic hunger, insecurity, climate change, the threats of a Desert Locust outbreak, and now the pandemic. Year after year, five out of the ten countries at the bottom of the UN Development Index are in West Africa.

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