The irregular weather pattern has caused sudden drought in main food-growing regions, threatening to spark shortages, inflation and unrest. By Bong S Sarmiento, Mindanao March 13, 2019 El Niño is parching farms and drying up water supplies in the Philippines, with the southern island of Mindanao taking the […]
Famine Early Warning System Network February 1, 2019 USAID Delayed start of season and significant rainfall deficits negatively impacting cropping conditions The October 2018 to March 2019 rainy season in Southern Africa started nearly a month late, and rainfall totals to date are significantly below average across much […]
Niem Chheng January 2019 Drought at Toumnub Dach village Obichaon commune Ochrau district in Banteay Meanchey province in 2016. Hong Menea The government on Thursday issued a statement raising concerns of a drought, as El Nino threatens to cast a prolonged dry spell when it hits the Kingdom in […]
Infographic from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Published on 22 Jan 2019 OVERVIEW Approximately 10.8 million people were facing severe food insecurity in Southern Africa as 2018 came to an end. In Eswatini, the estimated number of people facing Crisis (IPC phase 3) or worse food insecurity more […]
2018 was the sixth-warmest and had the sixth-lowest monsoon in the last 117 years, says IMD By Richard Mahapatra Thursday 17 January 2019 Credit: Getty Images The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on January 16 declared that 2018 was the sixth- warmest year in the last 117 years or since 1901, […]
December 12, 2018 By Forbes Conflict, drought and floods have pushed a record number of Somalis into Mogadishu, making it Africa’s most crowded city, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said. With more than 340,000 people forced to flee their homes in the first half of 2018, the year […]
Philip Ball plunges into a chronicle of the subcontinent’s human and environmental histories. Philip Ball December 12, 2018 The Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh remarked on a singular cultural gap in his 2016 book The Great Derangement. Environment and climate, he noted, are almost completely ignored in contemporary literary […]
