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 …
MOGADISHU Somalia (Xinhua) -- About 620,000 Somalis have been displaced from their homes since November 2016 due to severe drought ravaging parts of the Horn of Africa nation, the UN humanitarian agency said on Thursday. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said about 7,000 people have crossed …
Climate change has already made a difference to life in the West African Sahel, the arid belt of land stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea which separates the Sahara desert from the African savanna. It has made catastrophic storms three times more frequent. And, according to a new …
GUILOKI, Niger (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Moumouni Abdoulaye and his fellow herders in western Niger used to set off on scouting missions in search of water, they feared for their livestock - and for their own lives. Unable to rely anymore on their traditional methods of predicting the weather …
CAPE TOWN – The Western Cape government on Monday appealed to residents to continue to push hard to save water as dam levels dropped to 20 percent. Anton Bredell, MEC of Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning in the Western Cape, said: “In the remaining period before our expected …
A three-year drought has left more than half a million people in need of urgent humanitarian aid in Somaliland. More than 100,000 people have left their homes in search of food. The lack of clean water has also led to acute diarrhoea and disease. Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi reports from …
A group of scientists have developed an innovative tool to detect and quantify severity of drought and floods in the country. The scientists from the University of Nairobi, working together with their colleagues at the Airbus Defence and Space, a UK-based space agency, said the tool will use satellite images …
Hundreds of fishermen and herders in Kenya’s coastal Lamu County, a UNESCO world heritage site, are reeling from a prolonged drought that dried up fresh water lakes. Sources at the department of fisheries told Xinhua that fishermen who eke a living out of ox-bow lakes spread across Lamu have been …
Kenya’s food security is expected to remain precarious following a delayed poor long rains which also affected the 2016 cropping season and the prolonged drought ravaging many parts of the country, says a food security report released on Saturday. The monthly report by donor-funded Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS Net), …
Donald Trump’s scorched-earth approach to environmental protections has shocked current and former government officials overseas who are waiting nervously to see whether the US will destabilize the Paris climate agreement by pulling out of the deal. The Guardian has spoken to a number of officials from key countries before Trump …
This Compendium is the final publication of the first phase of the IDMP Central and Eastern Europe (IDMP CEE) and provides an overview of the programme’s outputs and accomplishments achieved in the period from 2013 to 2015. The focus of IDMP CEE was to support policy makers through activities which …
MOGADISHU Somalia (Xinhua) -- Drought-stricken families in rural Somalia have been given a lifeline via 100 U.S. dollar cash grants to see them through lean times brought on by severe drought, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement on Friday. The ICRC this week provided …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday that it has secured 10.7 million U.S. dollars to help roll back famine in South Sudan and to assist hungry people in Horn of Africa countries hit by drought. WFP Regional Director for East and Central Africa, Valerie Guarnieri …
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) said that it has discovered sorghum seed that brings bumper crop to farmers residing in the most drought affected areas. A crew of journalists made Sunday a field trip to west Hararghe Zone aiming at evaluating the status of a new Melkam sorghum seed …
Sub-Saharan Africa will require a staggering $600 million annually to contain a trans-boundary pest, the fall armyworm, that is wreaking havoc across farmlands. Although the pest has only been in Africa for slightly over a year, having first been reported in Nigeria in January 2016, it has now spread to …
Kenya’s ministry of agriculture on Tuesday launched several drought resistant and high yielding crop varieties to be deployed in 21 arid and semi arid counties where hunger and malnutrition is rampant. Principal Secretary for Livestock, Andrew Tuimur said the drought tolerant crops including beans, green grams, cassava and grain amaranth …
ARUSHA, Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Nearly 6,000 cattle have died in Tanzania’s northwestern region of Shinyanga between last September and February of this year due to drought, an official said Thursday. Beda Chamadata, of the Shinyanga region’s livestock office, said the animal deaths include 5,855 cows and 73 goats. He said …
A group of nine Republican lawmakers urged President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the 2015 Paris climate agreement but to reduce its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions, as Trump advisors were set on Thursday to discuss whether to leave the pact. Representative Kevin Cramer of oil-producing …
Kenya’s annual inflation accelerated for a fourth consecutive month to its highest level in five years as price pressures from an ongoing drought persist. Consumer prices surged 11.5 percent in April from 10.3 percent in March, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement emailed from the capital, …
ADDIS ABABA - The number of people in need of food aid in Ethiopia's drought-hit regions has surged to 7.7 million, some 2 million more than estimated earlier this year, state media reported on Friday. The National Disaster Risk Management Commission said in January that failed rains would put 5.6 …
Water scarcity half a world away caused by climate change could push up prices for meat and diary products in Europe by disrupting supplies of soybean, which is widely used as feed for livestock, researchers said Wednesday. The European Union sources most soybean from outside the 28-nation bloc - mainly …
