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 …
The United Nations is urging for more investment in long-term projects to protect people in developing countries from droughts, following a visit by heads of UN agencies to Ethiopia, where 9.5 million people are in need of food assistance. Ethiopia’s Somali Region, where rains have failed for the third consecutive …
Gram panchayats directed to set aside rice for the needy The Chhattisgarh government on Tuesday declared 96 of the 149 tehsils in the State as “drought-hit” owing to less than normal rainfall this year. The decision was taken at the State Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Raman Singh in …
As worsening mega-storms, floods and droughts claim more lives and cause billions of dollars in damage around the world, recognition of the need to act quickly to curb climate change is growing, banking experts say. But getting trillions of dollars in cash to the projects that can quickly make a …
More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said Tuesday. People's use of the earth's natural reserves has doubled in the last 30 years. Now a third …
The average water level of dams across the Western Cape is 35.2%‚ a significant drop from the levels measured in 2016. In the corresponding period last year‚ dam levels were at 61% after the winter rainfall. Anton Bredell‚ Western Cape local government‚ environmental affairs and development planning MEC‚ said the …
Drought and the predicted long-term drier trend in the Western Cape could have a serious effect on the growing of deciduous fruit crops, says deciduous fruit industry body Hortgro. The Western Cape’s drought threatens to decimate the province’s once thriving agricultural sector. Concerns have been raised that it will lead …
Humanitarian partners in Kenya on Thursday appealed for 106 million U.S. dollars to scale up their response to help lessen the dire effects of drought in northern Kenya. The UN Resident Coordinator in Kenya Siddharth Chatterjee said the UN family and the humanitarian community stand with Kenyans to address the …
Hydrologists and climate scientists have just calculated the future of one of the world’s most celebrated waterways, the River Jordan. Their conclusion is that the outlook is poor – and getting poorer. If humans continue to burn fossil fuels at an ever-increasing rate, then rainfall will diminish by 30%, average …
Kamwenge — Huge expanses of Biguli wetland have been degraded by people seeking land for farming. It is shrinking rapidly, exposing residents of Biguli Sub-county in Kamwenge District to adverse climate change effects such as drought. "We used not to experience drought because our wetlands were not tampered with. We …
China and Ethiopia Wednesday signed an emergency humanitarian food aid agreement where China will provide wheat worth 15 million U.S. dollars to support people affected by drought in the East African country. According to a press statement from the Chinese Embassy in Ethiopia on Wednesday, Liu Tao, Chargé d'Affaires at …
More investment is needed in long-term projects to protect people in developing countries from droughts, the heads of the United Nations food agencies said on Tuesday after a visit to Ethiopia, where 9.5 million people are hungry. The death of many livestock in Ethiopia, as well as in Somalia where …
Danan - Men, women and children in this remote region of Ethiopia scramble to receive food aid and feed their rail-thin cattle as a huge cloud of dust rises into a sky that hasn't delivered enough rain for the past three years. The mass feeding programme, managed by aid groups …
Cape Town - As the City of Cape Town introduces level 5 water restrictions, Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says that wastewater can and must be used to augment water sources. After attending a World Water Week held in Stockholm on Friday, Mokonyane said that despite all of the …
The bouts of rainfall that battered Houston, Mumbai and Calcutta last week, albeit in vastly different amounts, may earn tags of extreme rain events that weather scientists say are becoming more common under the influence of global warming. The tropical storm Harvey set a record for continental US with 132cm …
The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Jose Graziano da Silva has warned that there is increasing hunger in Africa due to factors including prolonged drought, floods and conflicts. Graziano da Silva said this on Thursday while concluding a three day visit to Uganda where he held discussions …
Southern Africa is set to establish a regional risk insurance scheme aimed at improving its rapid response to natural disasters. Risk financing and insurance is one of the several measures that most countries and regions around the world use to limit the impact of disasters such as droughts and floods. …
Gaborone – Climate experts have warned Southern African countries to brace for another drought spell as the region is expected to receive below normal rainfall from October to November this year and normal to above normal rains from January to March 2018. The SADC climate scientists made the warning at …
With immediate effect‚ commercial customers have been ordered to cut their water use by 20% compared with a year ago. Residential customers have been ordered to cap consumption at 20 kilolitres a month or face “a very high fine”. Mayor Patricia de Lille said on Sunday the level of fines …
Although short rains are expected in a month’s time, the National Drought Management Authority says it will not be enough to end a looming shortage. “Staple food prices remain high, and incomes from livestock and milk sales remain low. Food consumption will decline as more households increasingly rely on coping …
The purpose of this National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) is to: Guide government and other implementing stakeholders in prioritising the implementation of post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA) findings and guide recovery investment and resource allocations across short-term humanitarian needs and medium- to long-term reconstruction; Help articulate a vision for recovery; Define …
