Chad food crisis: Oxfam goat vaccination program

In 2012 countries across the Sahel region are once again facing a serious food crisis. This ecologically fragile region is becoming increasingly vunerable to insufficient rainfall, and fluctuating animal and food prices that are affecting millions of pastoral and agro-pastoralists across this region of Africa.

Grazing areas for their livestock are also fast disappearing, and as a result, their livelihoods are being threatened as the desertification takes its grip.

Oxfam is hoping to raise $37m to reach around one million people across the Sahel region with vital aid such as food, cash, support to livestock, water, sanitation and hygiene promotion campaigns.

Donate to Oxfam's appeal for food crisis in Sahel

Photos: Andy Hall/Oxfam (Feb. 2012)