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This, in addition to four years of drought, has forced entire families to leave their villages for makeshift internal refugee camps.
The current drought covering much of East Africa – far more severe than past droughts – has been directly associated with climate change.
As the worst drought in living memory destroyed harvests and decimated livestock, almost $1 billion was mobilized in emergency aid for nutrition, health, and clean water provision.
That aid saved many lives and prevented a slow-motion replay of the 2011 drought, when delayed international action resulted in nearly 260,000 deaths.
But humanitarian aid, which is often volatile and overwhelmingly short-term, will not break the deadly cycles of drought, hunger, and poverty.
Without international support, Somalia’s government lacks the resources needed to break the deadly cycle of drought, hunger, and poverty.
If you think the blame game in Europe over Greece is bad, just wait for arguments about who is causing drought and food-price inflation.
Breaking Asia’s Data DroughtMANILA – Many parts of Asia have been gripped by searing temperatures and the worst drought in decades.
Likewise, the absence of detailed rainfall records, particularly in remote areas, impedes efforts to assess flood and drought risk.
Breaking the data drought will not by itself end Asia’s water crisis.
Making matters worse, the country has suffered this year from both floods and drought.
Because men are more likely to perform wage labor or farm cash crops, a climate-driven event like drought may cost them their wages and force them to move to cities to find employment.
So, if a conspiracy of Asian central banks is not to blame for the volatility drought that is parching traders’ earnings, what is?Surely, today’s low volatility is partly cyclical.
A wave of extreme weather events this past summer – from wildfires in California and Sweden to floods in India and drought in Australia – show just how right he was.
The power-sharing government, fostered by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Western powers, stabilized the country and gave Kenyans hope in a tough year that has seen food and fuel prices skyrocket and drought plague the north.
In my country, South Africa, a record drought is forcing major cities to consider water rationing.
Large domestic private groups affected by the scandal have faced financial drought, operational disarray, and a sudden halt in demand, while outside investors, driven by a combination of shaken confidence and opportunism, adopted a “wait-and-see” approach.
Innovations in biotechnology and farming methods are needed to deal with disease, pests, and drought.
It is also less certain now that humans have caused hurricane and drought events since 1950.
But Darfur, like Tigre, needs a development strategy to fight hunger and drought even more than it needs peacekeepers.
Africans suffering from hunger and drought, and indeed poor people everywhere, have a right to ask much more of the US and other rich countries.
They are insufficient to stop abuses (after all, sanctions were threatened before the elections) and risk pushing Zimbabwe's economy deeper into crisis, hurting millions of innocent people, especially during a period of intensifying hunger and drought.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “moderate” to “exceptional” drought conditions cover 25.1% of the United States.
But “extreme” and “exceptional” drought – the worst categories – expanded to cover 6.3% of the country, up from 6% in mid-September.
Regions in Australia also are struggling with the worst drought in a generation.
He claims that global warming caused the current drought in America’s Midwest, and that supposedly record-high corn prices could cause a global food crisis.
Moreover, there is no way that Krugman could have identified this drought as being caused by global warming without a time machine: climate models estimate that such detection will be possible by 2048, at the earliest.
And, fortunately, this year’s drought appears unlikely to cause a food crisis.
Bill McKibben similarly frets in The Guardian and The Daily Beast about the Midwest drought and corn prices.
There are still hundreds of thousands of people affected by the drought and famine who require urgent and sustained help, and we must work to prevent such a disaster from recurring.
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