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Displaying 10 of about 10 resultsA new study revealing that huge expansions of extensive large-scale agriculture is making the South American plains more vulnerable to widespread flooding should act as a “wake-up call”, say researchers.The grasslands of the Argentinean Pampas, famously home to the iconic Gaucho, along with other extensive flat plain areas of South America have been und…
This paper analyses the drought risk in Argentina, taking into account recent information on drought hazard, exposure and vulnerability.
During the last 20 years, Argentina experienced several extreme and widespread droughts in many different regions, including the core cropland areas. The most devastating recent events were recorded in the years…
The Argentina National Space Activities Commission (CONAE) launched a new Earth observation satellite that will support disaster management efforts. SAOCOM 1A is the first of a constellation of two radar satellites. The remote sensing mission aims to provide timely information for disaster management as well as monitor…
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A major drought occurred in late 2017, early 2018 in the Pampas of central-eastern Argentina, a major world breadbasket. The drought was linked to a mild La Niña event and intraseasonal modes of atmospheric variability. Several locations in the Pampas showed historical lows in precipitation during this event. Lack of rainfall was compounde…
This meeting will deal with all aspects related to the effects of climate on agricultural production and on the environment.
Themes
• Climate change
• risk identification and assessment
• social impacts
• resilience
• water
• hazards (droughts, floods, heat waves, frost)
• vulnerability and adaptation
This report summarizes the risks posed on Argentina's climate, ecosystems, food and water systems, and citizens by climate impacts, as well as its policies for mitigation, adaptation, and emissions reductions. Argentina’s climate ranges from tropical to polar. This variability is mainly due to the size, heterogeneity and orography of the country, which…
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved last Thursday a new US$150 million project to support 20,000 vulnerable, rural producers in Argentina through improving risk management in the agricultural sector to increase their resilience to extreme weather events such as droughts and floods.
The Integrated Risk Management in the Rural Agroi…
Environment and urbanization 25.2:
This is the first of two issues of the Journal on what builds resilience to climate change in cities – and beyond this, what contributes to mitigation and the avoidance of dangerous climate change.
It includes case studies of climate change adaptation in Durban, Dar es Salaam and Rosario, and others that address floo…
By Laurie Goering
London - Population growth, rising affluence, water shortages and climate change are combining to create unprecedented pressure on the world’s food supply - pressure that is likely to play out both as slow rises in hunger and as famines linked to extreme weather events, a leading agriculture expert says.
“We have yet to grasp what cl…
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South American drought fuels fears of food price shocks, as soya bean harvests suffer
The viability of water supplies throughout key regions of China, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the US are under threat from unsustainable domestic, agricultural and industrial demands, according to a new study that maps water use down to 10km² world…