A call for strategic planning now at an international and regional level to anticipate the next Horn of Africa drought and famine, is highlighted on the AlertNet Debating Chamber blog. Randolph Kent, Director of the Humanitarian Futures Programme at King’s College, London, tells Reuters that the present disaster has to teach those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities, that the ways they’ve approached such crises in the past is not good enough: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/the-debating-chamber/is-africa-drought-a-chance-to-enact-new-uk-policy/

See also: http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/2011/07/18/is-africa-drought-a-chance-to-enact-new-uk-policy/