Food Security
Uganda: Food, Water Crisis Looms for ThousandsAllAfrica.com | 15 Mar 2011Thousands of people in 36 of Uganda's 112 districts are at risk of serious food and water shortages due to drought attributed to the La Niña weather phenomenon. Health officials have warned of outbreaks of diseases such as diarrhoea and dysentery, due to poor hygiene. The situation requires urgent attention, says the Minister for Disaster Preparedness, Musa Ecweru. "We are experiencing food shortages; some families are [already] going without food."
Uganda | Access to Information | Agriculture | Waterborne Diseases | Weather Conditions East Africa: Climate Change 'Will Bring Drought, Not Rain'AllAfrica.com | 15 Mar 2011East African environmental specialists have questioned new research that concludes that that climate change will bring increased drought, rather than more rain, to the region. The new research, published in Climate Dynamics, predicts that the droughts common in eastern Africa over the past 20 years are likely to continue if global temperatures rise further. But the prediction contradicts the scenario of increased rainfall projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Climate Change Impacts | Drought | Environmental Impacts | Weather Conditions Increased flooding driven by climate change: studyfeedproxy.google.com | 16 Feb 2011Global warming driven by human activity boosted the intensity of rain, snow and consequent flooding in the northern hemisphere over the last half of the 20th century, research released Wednesday has shown. Two studies, both published in Nature, are among the first to draw a straight line between climate change and its impact on potentially deadly and damaging extreme weather events.
Climate Change Impacts | Floods | Weather Conditions GIEWS Country Brief: Malifeedproxy.google.com | 09 Feb 2011Harvesting of millet and sorghum, the major grains produced in the country, was completed in November, while rice harvesting is almost complete. Favourable weather conditions and continued government support towards the agriculture sector resulted in a favourable cereal harvest in 2010. With the exception of a few localised areas, the rangelands have recovered well, including in northern pastoral areas were severe pasture deficit led to high livestock mortality last year
Mali | Agriculture | Food Security | Weather Conditions GLOBAL: Unpacking La NiñaIRIN News | 28 Jan 2011As floods driven by heavy downpours in South Africa, Australia and Sri Lanka swallowed vast tracts of land in the past few weeks, almost every news report blamed La Niña - described as "the ocean-atmosphere phenomenon" by the US government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Floods | Weather Conditions Mozambique: Above Normal Rainfall ForecastAllAfrica.com | 21 Dec 2010Maputo — Mozambique's National Meteorology Institute (INAM) has forecast above normal rains for most of the country for the second half of the rainy season (January-March). In most of the northern province of Cabo Delgado, and parts of the adjacent provinces of Niassa and Nampula, the forecast is for "normal rains with a trend to above normal". Everywhere else in Mozambique, the forecast is for above normal rains "with a trend to normal".
Mozambique | Food Security | Weather Conditions Nigeria: Agony of a People Cut Off By FloodAllAfrica.com | 25 Oct 2010About 12 major communities in Nkanu area of Enugu State have been cut off due to the collapse of two bridges in Enugu South and Nkanu West Local Government Areas of the state. The bridges are Nyaba at Amechi Awkunanaw built by the Chimaroke Nnamani administration before its exit in 2007 and the...
Nigeria | Floods | Weather Conditions