Targets to cut the number of hungry people in the world will not be met without greater international effort, UN food agencies have warned. The UN’s annual report on global food security confirms that more than one billion people – a sixth of the world’s population – are undernourished. It says the number of hungry … Continue reading
Category Archives: Drought
Drought / East Africa / Markets / Nutrition / Pastoralism
Drought: Kenya’s own banking crisis
The drought which has hit East Africa is wreaking havoc among the region’s pastoralists. Their herds of livestock have been decimated. Even the hardy camels are dying. Turkana District in northwest Kenya is a harsh environment at the best of times. Driving along the sandy roads with temperatures tipping 40C, the air coming through the … Continue reading
Drought / East Africa / Food Security / Kenya
A profile of what could become the country’s irreversible tragedy
A profile of what could become the country’s irreversible tragedy Kenya’s worst drought in living memory has been overshadowed by political and economic crises and the destruction of the Mau Forest. Now, with 10 million people short of food, the drought has captured national attention. Read more (Daily Nation) Continue reading
Drought / East Africa / Environment / Kenya
A catastrophe is looming
The drought cycle in east Africa has been contracting sharply. Rains used to fail every nine or ten years. Then the cycle seemed to go down to five years. Now, it seems, the region faces drought every two or three years. The production of Kenyan maize, the country’s staple, is likely to drop by one-third, … Continue reading
Drought / Kenya / Livelihoods
Drought wipes out Kenyan pastoralists’ livelihood
Garrisa town is the headquarters of North Eastern Province, Kenya, the heart beat of Kenya’s pastoralists’ community who are crying lot following the worst country’s’ drought in decades. Livestock among the pastoralists accounts for more than 70 per cent of household income that means they source more than half their food from the market since … Continue reading
The last nomads: Drought drives Kenya’s herders to the brink
In the isolated border lands between Kenya and Somalia, families have always clung to a precarious existence. Now a decade of droughts has tested their endurance Hawa Hassan comes leading three donkeys, accompanied by two female relatives and a handful of the family’s smallest children. They have walked out of the drought-withered acacia scrub, travelling … Continue reading
Kenya’s pain: Famine, drought, government ambivalence cripples once stable nation
Children are starving, cattle are dropping dead, crops are withered, lakes are empty, and still the rains haven’t come. Kenya is on the verge of a catastrophe of Biblical proportions. Read more … (Part one in a two part look at the crisis in Kenya. The next article will focus on how the drought is … Continue reading
Asia / Climate Change / Dairying / Drought / India / Markets / South Asia
Drought-like conditions may lead to higher milk production in state
There is a possibility that drought-like conditions will help dairy sector in Gujarat to register higher production of milk, revealed a recent study conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Read more … (Indian Express) Continue reading
Africa / Drought / Environment / Kenya
Lush land dries up, withering Kenya’s hopes
The sun somehow feels closer here, more intense, more personal. As Philip Lolua waits under a tree for a scoop of food, heat waves dance up from the desert floor, blurring the dead animal carcasses sprawled in front of him. A Devastating Drought Sweeps Across Kenya Children waited in Lokori for aid last month. Communities … Continue reading
Africa / Climate Change / Drought / East Africa / Tanzania
Government to buy cattle in drought-hit districts (Tanzania)
The Government will buy cattle from herders who are struggling to keep the animals alive in drought-hit areas, according to a senior Livestock Development and Fisheries ministry official. Read more … (The Citizen) Continue reading
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