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Displaying 2520 of about 2523 resultsAs the climate dries, maize is becoming harder to grow in much of Zimbabwe - but shifting away from it is a challenge
By Lungelo Ndhlovu
As Zimbabwe's farmers head to the fields to plant, the country is facing yet another dry growing season, meteorologists predict. But that has not persuaded Sikhathele Sibanda to grow something besides thirsty maize,…
By Dechen Tshering
The 2016 monsoon was much heavier than usual affecting almost all of Bhutan, especially in the south.
Landslides damaged most of the country’s major highways and smaller roads. Bridges were washed away, isolating communities.
The Phuentsholing -Thimphu highway which carries food and fuel from India to half…
By Christine Chisha
In Zambia, any change in climate can spell disaster as a majority of Zambians depend on agriculture and so even a slight change in temperature can affect crops like maize with catastrophic consequences for livelihood. But this is already happening.
In the east part of Zambia, the adverse effects of climate change are evident. The o…
In Rwanda, the “land of a thousand hills”, frequent landslides and floods caused by erratic rains are literally washing people’s lives away and driving them from their homes.
Alexandre Uhere had been growing vegetables on the hillsides around his village of Kinyanja in western Rwanda for decades before sudden heavy rains kept sweeping his livelihood do…
By Laura Oprescu
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Pakistan’s Ministry of National Food Security and Research had said the locusts first emerged in January this year from Sudan and Eritrea on Africa’s Red Sea Coast, hit Saudi Arabia and Iran in February, and entered south-western Pakistan in March.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO…
By Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of the Global Centre on Adaptation; and Jamal Saghir, affiliated scholar at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut
Climate change does not directly spark conflict, but it does help to light the fuse by exacerbating stresses on natural resources. When peace finally…
By Marie-Charlotte Buisson
For years, farmers in the coastal zone of Bangladesh have continually braced for a multitude of challenges. And the solution lies in working with farmers, communities and local institutions, combining low-tech water management innovations with better coordination and new crop varieties.
Cyclone Amphan…
The Green Climate Fund on Friday approved US$25.6 million in new funding for an innovative climate resilience project in Sudan, designed to promote agriculture, health, and food and water security. Around 1.2 million people from subsistence farming and nomadic pastoralist communities across nine states are set to directly benefit, with an addi…
By Vittal Hari, Oldrich Rakovec, Yannis Markonis et al.
The frequency of record-breaking two-year droughts is expected to rise by the end of the century if projected greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced.
German-Czech team of scientists led by the UFZ examined the impact of the 2018-2019 Central European drought using long-term global climate…
Young farmers are leaving rural areas in search of better employment. Improved water access could help revitalize agricultural opportunities and curb out-migration.
By Esther Wahabu, Researcher, Social Sciences, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Accra, Ghana; and Prachi Patel, Princeton in Asia Communications Fellow, IWMI, Colombo,…
A household’s vulnerability to climate shocks and its resilience to recover can now be measured, suggests a recently published study. The study’s authors have turned their measurement approach into an easy-to-use framework using data from smallholder households facing droughts in India.
Vulnerability and resilience are two interrelated factors in clima…
Climate change will reduce seasonal water for irrigation
By Jeff Grabmeier
Farmers in parts of the western United States who rely on snowmelt to help irrigate their crops will be among the hardest hit in the world by climate change, a new study reveals.
In an article published today in Nature Climate Change, an interdisciplinary team of researc…
By Kritika A Gadpayle and Indu K Murthy
India has been witnessing variable monsoon for the past few years. The last year was marked by surplus rain in June, deficit rain in July, and surplus rain in August and September, as reported by the Ministry of Earth Sciences. This inconsistency in the monsoon rainfall pattern is an indication that extreme weath…
By Beatrice Mosello and Adam Day
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The pandemic has affected both rich and poor countries alike, but for those already struggling with poverty, COVID-19 is creating new risks of instability. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, severe movement restrictions during the pandemic have combined with existing food insecurity that was already at reco…
Weather and climate services are vital for sustainable development and climate change adaptation. The benefits of investment greatly outweigh the cost, and yet the capacity to deliver and access these services is uneven and inadequate, according to a new report.
An inaugural report on the State of Climate Services highlights progress, opportu…