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Climate conversations: Developing water-efficient maize for Africa

23 Jan 2012, AlertNet

'We are eager to move forward and start to use some of the products, especially conventional drought-tolerant maize lines, to develop an array of varieties in the country,' Godfrey Asea, a maize breeder and the WEMA-Uganda country coordinator told AlertNet...


Human Exposure
Hazard type Population
exposed
Percentage of population
Cyclone 233,559
Drought 1,356,890
Flood 114,760
Landslide 568
 
Earthquake 23,309
Tsunami 8,540
Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report
Top 5 Natural Disaster reported
Disaster Date Affected (no. of people)
Drought 1981 4,750,000
Flood 2000 4,500,000
Drought 1991 3,300,000
Storm 1994 2,502,000
Drought 2005 1,400,000
Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
Data version: v11.08   *: Including tsunami
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