As climate change intensifies, it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating loss and damage it inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries. In India's Maharashtra state, these impacts are forcing rural families into life-altering decisions and migrations to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, including …
Water use in Cape Town has increased by 5% over the past week to 542 million litres of water per day, Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson on Monday. Last week, the average consumption stood at 516 million litres a day. Dam levels have dropped to 20.9% "The fall in dam levels …
C40 Cities South Africa Buildings Programme, launched this week in Tshwane, aspires to make zero carbon buildings standard practice across South African cities. Mayors of four major cities, Tshwane, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban joined together to introduce requirements ensuring all new buildings are energy efficient, cutting electricity bills and …
The International Trade Centre (ITC) has partnered with ICS, which is representing a number of European textile retailers, to strengthen competitiveness and climate resilience in the Moroccan textile value chain. The launch of the project will coincide with three days of meetings and training in Casablanca, Morocco, on 10-12 April, …
Rs. 1,042 crore to be spent on it In an attempt to fight the recurrent drought situations in five districts in the State, the government has launched a Disaster Mitigation Project (DMP) with a budget of Rs. 1,042 crore. Minister for Agriculture Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy, who launched the project here …
Water use in the City of Cape Town has stabilised at lower levels compared to the beginning of the year, Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson said on Wednesday. The decline saw Cape Town dam levels drop by only 0.3% last week, he said. Dams supplying the city now stand at 21.8%. …
Drought is an extreme and frequent event in the north-west region of Bangladesh and it adversely affects the livelihood of the farming community. Identifying the coping strategies that farmers use in the face of drought is crucial in order to understand how farmers minimize the effects of drought on their …
Drylands account for three-quarters of Sub-Saharan Africa's cropland, two-thirds of cereal production, and four-fifths of livestock holdings. Today frequent and severe shocks, especially droughts, limit the livelihood opportunities available to millions of households and undermine efforts to eradicate poverty in the drylands. Prospects for sustainable development of drylands are assessed …
Drought is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting world agriculture. Breeding drought-resistant crops is one of the most important challenges for plant biologists. PYR1/PYL/RCARs, which encode the abscisic acid (ABA) receptors, play pivotal roles in ABA signaling, but how these genes function in crop drought response remains largely unknown. …
This disaster management research roadmap for the ASEAN region was created in the hopes that it will guide the process of achieving the goal of becoming a global leader on disaster risk management (DRM) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) by 2025. The principal objective of the roadmap is to prioritize …
The drought is about to whack Capetonians in the pocket‚ doubling the price of water in the next two years. The City of Cape Town’s draft budget‚ tabled at Wednesday’s council meeting‚ proposes a 27% rise in water tariffs from July 1. And it will get worse in 2019‚ with …
Capetonians have managed to get water usage down to 522 million litres per day over the past week - 43 million litres less than the previous week's water usage. The City of Cape Town still requires Capetonians to reduce collective usage to 450 million litres per day or 50l per …
Urban water supplies are critical to the growth of the city and the wellbeing of its citizens. However, these supplies can be vulnerable to hydrological extremes, such as droughts and floods, especially if they are the main source of water for the city. Maintaining these supplies and preparing for future …
Some 124 million people suffered from acute food insecurity in 2017, up from 108 millions in 2016, the United Nations (UN) said in a report on Thursday. All of those endangered by acute hunger last year lived across 51 countries, and the worst hunger crises were registered in northeast Nigeria, …
The price of major food commodities in the country has more than tripled within the last ten years, latest government survey shows. Within the review period,retail prices of 87 per cent of food products more than doubled while prices of 40 per cent of the food commodities more than tripled, …
Poor rainfall and high food prices will lead to food insecurity through September, says the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). According to the latest FEWS NET Food Security Outlook report, food security levels are expected to reach emergency levels among displaced people living in areas controlled by the …
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has joined a UN-sponsored international decade to safeguard and improve the world’s water supplies. The “Action Water for Sustainable Development” decade was adopted by the General Assembly in December 2016 and begins this year. It will help focus attention on global water security during the next 10 …
This year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) was supposed to have been held in our home country of Vanuatu, deep in the South Pacific. Instead it will open this April in London, and for that we can - in part - blame our changing climate. Thousands of miles away …
An historic drought in South Africa’s second largest city has put its vines at risk and now threatens to jeopardize its entire activity. The drought afflicting the province is expected to cut agricultural output in general by 20 percent in 2018, decimating the wheat crop and reducing apple, grape and …
This year’s focus is on encouraging people to look for nature-based solutions to reduce drought. Hyderabad: On International Water Day today, environmentalists draw attention to the lack of public awareness to conserve water. The South African city of Cape Town is said to run out of water by April 12. …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Drought Assistance, 20/03/2018. As per the latest data available on land use statistics, State-wise details of cultivable land (agricultural land) in the country for the year 2014-15 is given at Annexure I. The State wise details of suicides in farming/ agriculture sector during the …
