Event Post December 3, 2019 Evidence and lessons from a 3-year research study on agricultural extension in Malawi Sandra Fröbe-Kaltenbach Catherine Ragasa A project charts better ways to reach farmers with new techniques and information.

Source: European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Country: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal Compared with the 2019 lean season, 2020 food insecurity figures will rise by 100% in Mali and Burkina Faso, 74% in Chad and by 65% in Niger. Mauritania […]

In September, India’s historic attempt for a soft landing of their spacecraft and rover, the Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lander, ended prematurely when they lost communication with the craft. Now, images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal the crash site and final resting place of the mission.

Thousands of people are being evacuated from their homes in the Philippines as a rare December typhoon edges closer to some of the country’s most densely populated areas, including the capital of Manila.

Source: Assessment Capacities Project Country: Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, […]