Climate change has altered not only the overall magnitude of rainfall but also its seasonal distribution and interannual variability worldwide.…
IDCM: The Global Estimates report reveals that 32.4 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 by disasters…
By Karen Sanje
MZUZU, Malawi (AlertNet) – Less than three years after Ezelina Nyirongo reluctantly abandoned cultivation of her favourite local…
AlertNet: By combining mapping, analysis and raw data from thousands of emerging and historical conflicts, the CCAPS Conflict Dashboard enables users to…
Global warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns in the world differently than that from solar heating, according to a…
DARA: The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition reveals that climate change has already held back global development and inaction is…
LONDON (AlertNet) – Malnutrition is likely to be the most serious health threat linked to climate shifts in the coming…
InterAction Council: The world today confronts a water crisis with critical implications for peace, political stability and economic development, experts…
World Bank: Global food prices soared by 10 percent in July from a month ago, with maize and soybean reaching…
Squeezing Africa dry: behind every land grab is a water grab,
GRAIN: Food cannot be grown without water. In Africa, one…
ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…
Oxfam: Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a…
Guardian: Huge increase in large-scale mining is being fuelled by the rising price of metals and oil, as search for…
The CCAPS program released the pilot version of its dynamic mapping tool today. In partnership with AidData, CCAPS developed the online data portal…
AlertNet: The water level at the original Nansio pier has gradually been dropping since seasonal rainfalls began to lessen in…
BERKELEY — Trees are dying in the Sahel, a region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert, and human-caused climate change…
AlertNet: While Africa has successfully avoided conflict over shared water courses, it will need greater diplomacy to keep the peace…
CIAT: Over half of the world’s chocolate comes from cocoa produced by smallholders in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, many of…
AfricaNews: As the devastating drought causes havoc on the Horn of Africa region the number of people affected is staggering.…
UPI: The main humanitarian focus is in East Africa, where the catastrophe sweeping the region has been a long time…
Somalia, DR Congo top Maplecroft’s food security risk ranking
A new study assessing the availability and stability of food supplies in 196…
PARIS, Aug 26, 2011 (IPS) – The severe drought in the Horn of Africa, which has caused the death of…
WINDHOEK, Aug 15, 2011 (IPS) – Extreme weather conditions predicted because of climate change in Namibia are likely to have a…
NatureNews: Chris Funk explains how his group last year forecast the drought in Somalia that is now turning into famine…
LOKICHOGGIO, 29 July 2011 (IRIN) – Cross-border armed conflict over resources among Turkana pastoralists in northeastern Kenya has increased following…
FEWS NET/USGS has merged two historical rainfall data sets: interpolated rain gauge data from 1950‐2009 and satellite derived rainfall estimates…
The 2011 Horn of Africa famine is a famine occurring in several regions in the Horn of Africa as a…
LONDON (AlertNet) – One of the most severe droughts in 60 years has hit more than 10 million people in…
• The total population in need in the region is about 10.7 million people. This figure includes some 778,000 refugees…
VIDEO: 30 June 2011 – UNICEF’s Regional Emergency Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa, Robert McCarthy, dicsusses the food crisis…
AlertNet Video: More than ten million people face drought and starvation in the Horn of Africa region as aid agencies…
Some 10 million people are at risk in the Horn of Africa as two years of drought have forced food…
This year’s political unrest in the water-starved Middle East has raised the profile of the issue, with various commentators predicting…
At least 10 people have been killed after clashes broke out in northern Kenya over control of grazing land and…
A new scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries…
The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations and burned…
Oakland, CA – Hedge funds and other foreign speculators are increasing price volatility and supply insecurity in the global food system,…
The Gulf nations of Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are rated as the world’s most water stressed countries, with…
NAIROBI, 20 April 2011 (IRIN) – Officials and aid workers in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region have raised the alarm over…
The failure of the October to December 2010 rains in the Eastern Horn of Africa has left nearly 8.4 million…
Investment by big agribusinesses and foreign governments in the farmland of developing world countries is not the answer to increasing…
Floods, earthquakes, landslides: 2011 is a year of disasters. Bill McKibben asks: are we to blame? Plus, survivors tell their…
LONDON (AlertNet) – Several countries across the world, from Asia to Africa and South America, are grappling with the humanitarian…
HARGEISA/NAIROBI, 30 March 2011 (IRIN) – With drought spreading to almost all regions of Somalia, officials and aid workers have…
Here is an interactive flash application developed by Michael Mann and David Babb for an agricultural impacts/adaptation module of a…
Tanzania’s southern highlanders have long worried about pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses brought on by the cool, wet weather. But…
JOHANNESBURG, 24 February 2011 (IRIN) – The five-day rampage of Cyclone Bingiza across Madagascar killed at least 14 people and…
