{"id":1050,"date":"2010-05-25T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T21:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2011-03-12T19:51:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T00:51:27","slug":"niger-innovative-reforms-amid-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/05\/niger-innovative-reforms-amid-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Innovative reforms amid famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 160px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Niger_Farm_sand_tv_16aug05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Drought has turned farmland into useless...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1f\/Niger_Farm_sand_tv_16aug05.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Drought has turned farmland into useless...\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">From 2005: &#8220;Drought has turned farmland into useless dirt&#8230;&#8221; Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Niger_Farm_sand_tv_16aug05.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lepays.bf\/spip.php?article988\" target=\"_blank\">An unsigned editorial from Le Pays (Ouagadougou):<\/a> A quite good reflection on the educational and other restrictions coming for future governments in Niger, but tying the famine.  The papers in Niamey have little mention of the small farmers and herders Tahoua, Tillaberi, Diffa, and the north, who are long out of food and fleeing their homes.  It&#8217;s evidence both that patches of famine sit beside areas which had passable crops last year, and that Nigerien politics is often quite distant from the realities of most Nigeriens.   The Burkinabe writer ascribes blame for the chronic malnutrition of Niger&#8217;s citizens to both past policies and horrible governance (which is only partly the case), while leaving us with the distinctly uncomfortable vision of Niamey debating constitutional clauses while elsewhere in Niger people are dying.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related News Links<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/2\/hi\/world\/africa\/10150249.stm\">Niger leaders &#8216;must have degrees&#8217;<\/a> (news.bbc.co.uk)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.undispatch.com\/hunger-niger\">Hunger in Niger<\/a> (undispatch.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/burkinaFasoNews\/idAFLDE64E0CM20100515?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=burkinaFasoNews\">Niger junta to provide free food to one million<\/a> (af.reuters.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.one.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/famine-in-niger\/\">Famine in Niger<\/a> (one.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/nigeriaNews\/idAFLDE63Q28M20100427?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=nigeriaNews\">CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-U.N. aid agencies sound alarm on Niger food<\/a> (af.reuters.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/04\/world\/africa\/04niger.html%3Fpartner%3Drss%26emc%3Drss&amp;a=17509810&amp;rid=b89f27e6-db7b-44cd-94ec-56e5f6a19080&amp;e=2212e190b4eeba0535da69025f5f20db\">Famine Persists in Niger, but Denial Seems in the Past<\/a> (nytimes.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sahelblog.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/04\/niger-and-china\/\">Niger and China<\/a> (sahelblog.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/nigerNews\/idAFLDE61R0M520100228?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=nigerNews\">Niger facing famine, millions at risk &#8212; president<\/a> (af.reuters.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/nigerNews\/idAFLDE62917G20100310?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=nigerNews\">Niger calls for $123 million in food aid<\/a> (af.reuters.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/nigerNews\/idAFLDE6201KE20100302?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=nigerNews\">ANALYSIS-Niger junta&#8217;s hunger alarm is break with past<\/a> (af.reuters.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=560\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><span class=\"zem-script more-info pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2005: &#8220;Drought has turned farmland into useless dirt&#8230;&#8221; Image via Wikipedia An unsigned editorial from Le Pays (Ouagadougou): A quite good reflection on the educational and other restrictions coming for future governments in Niger, but tying the famine. The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/05\/niger-innovative-reforms-amid-famine\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107,106,66],"tags":[433,432,569],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1054,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/05\/niger-mali-hunger-famine-or-both\/","url_meta":{"origin":1050,"position":0},"title":"Niger, Mali: Hunger, famine or both","date":"May 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Hopefully by now everyone knows that parts of West Africa, especially pockets of Chad and Niger, are struggling with the worst food shortages since 2005. 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