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   Tagged: Niger

Starfish Expo - North Africa Breakout Session

Travis Anderson
16 Posts
1 Vote 1 Reply 233 Views
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Norm Brinkley - Session Leader Subject Matter Experts on North African Region Yazi Karen Boyle Norm Brinkley Issues - Water Dams that were created long ago are causing problems with the natural flow of water. Less than 7% of the people in Niger drink clean water and less than 5% have electricity ...

Sports material contact

Yazi
10 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 100 Views
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Need contact of company selling raw material for ball and equipment to cut panels and sew balls.

Link on Niger food situation

Yazi
10 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 69 Views
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
http://www.tamtaminfo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3106:situation-de-la-campagne-agropastorale-2009-2010-7800000-personnes-en-insecurite-alimentaire-au-niger&catid=49:societe&Itemid=96 Key points: 2,700,000 have only 10 days food stock and 5,100,000 have only 2,8 months food stock. Some of survival strategies are: reduction of the number of ...

Biomass and food shortage

Yazi
10 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 62 Views
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Livestock is the second source of revenue in Niger after uranium. In 2009 the three months annual rainfall was not well timely and zonal distributed and this resulted to 60% short of cattle food and food shortage in some areas affecting more than 2 million people. Some of the

Opportunities in Niger, Sahel

Yazi
10 Posts
2 Votes 1 Reply 134 Views
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 10 months ago
There are many opportunities to partnering in Niger: 1) Vocational training - We are training 16 girls from very poor families in sewing and knitting; 2) micro finance and business start up- 38 women are involved in our revolving loan and we are coaching 24 young people who started business;