[SDI-Africa] Africa and China step up cooperation on drought risk

[Gordon Ojwang]

Africa and China step up cooperation on drought risk 
>From 24 to 26 September 2011 over 40 officials from China, African countries 
and the United Nations took part in a three-day “Sino-African High-Level 
Seminar on Drought Risk Reduction” which is calling for drought risk 
reduction to be on the agenda of the next year’s Sino-African Summit for 
Development Cooperation. Delegates at the seminar also included heads of 
national meteorological services, disaster managers, national DRR (disaster 
risk reduction) coordinators and academics and scientists from China and 11 
African countries, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, 
Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. 
Participants shared knowledge and scientific approaches, practical methods 
in drought monitoring, early warning and management of agricultural drought. 
For further information contact: Shirish Ravan at shirish.ravan at unoosa.org.
 
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