UNCCD launches ‘Global Drought Snapshot’ report at COP28 in collaboration with International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA) Recent drought-related data based on research in the past two years and compiled by the UN point to “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale, where the massive impacts of human-induced droughts are only …
The United Nations declared three new regions in Somalia to be famine zones on Wednesday, expanding the area where the highest rates of malnutrition and deaths are taking place, including the refugee camps in the capital of Mogadishu. Two other areas had earlier been declared famine zones, and the United …
Leading aid and development charity Oxfam said 36 per cent of Pakistanis were undernourished, listing Pakistan among the 21 nations of the world which were found to be undernourished according to an interactive map published on Wednesday. Pakistan was adjudged to be more undernourished than Tanzania (35 per cent), Niger …
Sometimes the British overplay their importance in international affairs, but in the humanitarian crisis in east Africa they have contributed more than most. David Cameron delivered a rebuke to other countries last week for failing to match the UK’s response to famine in the region, while Andrew Mitchell, the international …
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory. The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by …
The whole of drought- and conflict-wracked southern Somalia is heading into famine as the Horn of Africa food crisis deepens, the United Nations said yesterday. In a report for countries sending aid, the UN's umbrella humanitarian agency OCHA said the "crisis in southern Somalia is expected to continue to worsen …
It is the peasantry that cry loudly and piteously for relief, and our programme must deal with their present condition. Real reflief can only come by a great change in the land laws and the basis of the present system of land tenure. We have among us many big landowners, …
François Jean, a leading figure in Doctors Without Borders and someone who had worked in Ethiopia for long, once wrote that famine was used by the government in Addis Ababa as “a trump card to weaken opposition movements and control populations”. Like Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and like …
Namrata Acharya / Bankura (west Bengal) August 25, 2010, 1:43 IST West Bengal finds drought has gripped 11 of its 18 districts. The state, one of the country’s largest rice producers, has received 30 per cent less rainfall so far, which has turned the otherwise lush landscape into parched patches, …
Ranchi, Aug. 18: At a time a central team is busy assessing the drought situation in Jharkhand, the JVM has stepped up its demand that the entire state be declared famine-hit, declaring an indefinite hungerstrike by its farmers
Aizawl: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) slammed the Mizoram government alleging massive loss of fund and crops due to poor implementation of the Bamboo Flowering and Famine Combat Scheme (BAFFACOS) during the Mautam famine that hit the state during 2007 and 2008. The report of the CAG, …
The Shibu Soren government today admitted that the drought scenario was critical, but refused to declare the state famine-hit. It, however, agreed to make efforts to improve irrigation facilities and provide foodgrain to the poor to prevent starvation deaths. The Opposition consequently staged a walkout. State agriculture minister Mathura Prasad …
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia appealed on Thursday for 159,410 tons of emergency aid to feed 6.2 million people, 25 years after more than a million perished in the country
Borlaug contributed to the agriculture of many countries by M. S. Swaminathan Norman Borlaug I had the privilege of knowing and working with Norman Borlaug
When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease In 1769, the wheat crop failed in France. Bread, the French staple, disappeared from boulangerie shelves. There was rioting in the streets of Paris and hordes of undernourished people looted bakeries. The French monarchy which had just scraped …
