This joint WFP and Action Against Hunger publication presents the impacts of El Niño in LAC, highlighting the emergency response and resilience activities taken to mitigate the effect of climate shocks in the region. The publication underscores the significance of adequate anticipation, preparedness, and response to climate emergencies in LAC. …
The showers that hit Delhi on June 16 caught everyone, including meteorologists, completely unawares. They heralded the earliest onset of monsoon in 97 years. Expected to arrive by June 29, the rains were 13 days ahead of schedule. "After studying weather patterns, including cloud formation and precipitation, we came to …
Nearly 37 countries are facing food emergencies as against 31 countries that had faced food shortages towards the end of last year. The food shortages are mainly due to the effects of El Ni
charred black smouldering ground has replaced the lush dense rain forests of Roraima, Brazil's northernmost province where flames lit half a year ago have devastated nearly 25 per cent of the province. But it was the power of nature in the form of rains, which finally stopped the fires. In …
Kenya produces nearly 1.5 per cent of the world's coffee. However, coffee producers are struggling to overcome two burdens inclement weather and bureaucratic inertia. The first problem is short-lived as Kenya has received average rainfall since the 1960's. This year, more than 262 millimetres (mm) of rain fell in January, …
In Brazil's Amazon, in the 30 years following the 1960s, the forests retreated before the onslaught of a government determined to hand over a land without people to its people who did not have land. Huge tracts of forest land in the Amazon vanished, sandwiched between the sawmills and the …
the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( fao ) has recently said that low global cereal stocks for a third year in a row could signal an imminent food crisis. This warning comes despite a good wheat crop anticipated in India, western Europe and north Africa. In a special "Food Outlook' …
The incessant rains that walloped most of east and central Africa for most of the past five months have given way to soothing blue skies. Yet, the effects of the relentless precipitation, caused by now-notorious El Ni
the Galapagos archipelago off the coast of Peru supports a unique ecosystem with a large variety of plants and animals. The archipelago has witnessed abnormal weather conditions this season (summer in the Southern Hemisphere) that have been attributed to the phenomenon known as El Ni
The Colombian government has called upon the European Union to help drought-affected farmers in the country. The government has sought us $2.5 million aid in this regard. The damaging effect of the warm Pacific current, El Ni
TIME was when people looked heavenward and prayed, "Ye gods, give us rain, keep drought away." Today, there are those who pray, "Give us rain, keep El Nifto away." El Nifio and its atmospheric equivalent, (a sea-level pressure 'seesaw') called the Southern Oscillation, are together referred to as ENso, and …
TILL recently, weather watchers knew of only I weather-monster - the El Nino. The Child Christ is a demon that disrupts the Pacific ocean, triggering droughts and floods over large and farflung areas of the planet. But new clues reveal that El Nino is not alone. There are similar but …
