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Posts Tagged ‘Sahel’
Natural disasters, Politics, Dec 17th, 2011,
A million children living in the Sahel countries are at risk of famine or dramatic malnutrition in 2012. This is two times more than today, warned the United Nations Fund for Children. Famine threatens children in Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mauritania and Mali and the northern territories of Nigeria and Cameroon, said David Gressly, regional director of UNICEF responsible for the countries in West and Central Africa. In 2011 in the region half a million children suffered from extreme malnutrition. In the Sahel countries, a drought caused lack of water in the tanks, its levels also decreased in the…
Tags: Africa, children, drought, famine, malnutrition, Sahel
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Jan 21st, 2011,
After reading a National Geographic article about the modern challenges of agricultural, I wanted to post something related to the global water crisis and water in general. Sure, there is a lot of it coming down in parts of Australia and Brazil at the moment – and not in a good way. But in places like Africa’s Sahel region, famine and drought are constant and increasing threats. From the NatGeo News piece Agriculture Becomes Our Top Environment Issue: Many existing agricultural methods have stripped soils of nutrients, sucked aquifers dry, and polluted water with pesticides and fertilizers. And now, working…
Tags: Africa, amata, global water crisis, Green Revolution, National Geographic, Sahel, water, water song
Climate Change, Nature, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 26th, 2010,
Several West African nations are at ‘crisis point’ due to a severe drought in the region. Harvests in Niger and Chad have fallen by a third, while food prices have increased by the same proportion. Both countries have declared a state of emergency. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) some 10 million people are at risk of hunger in the West African part of the Sahel, an ecological and geographical zone that stretches across the African continent. 13.4 million face hunger in Niger and two million in Chad. Mauritania and Mali are also at risk. So far government…
Tags: Africa, African, Chad, drought, hunger, Niger, Sahel, starvation, West
