Various humanitarian organizations United Nations, as UNICEF, the World Food Program or its Humanitarian Coordination Office, began to warn weeks ago that the population of Loop was suffering from hunger and was rapidly heading towards a situation of famine, despite which this condition has not yet been formally declared. The most obvious and alarming sign […]
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Global economic losses from extreme weather could reach $5 trillion: Lloyd’s
Global economic losses could reach US$5 trillion in the event of a “plausible increase” in climate-related extreme weather events. climate change causing crop losses and food and water shortages, the insurer said Wednesday Lloyd’s From london. Lloyd’s, which carried out the research alongside the Cambridge Center for Risk Studies, stressed that its “systemic risk scenario”, […]
With increasingly scarce rains, Guatemalans learn to use every drop
In the village of San Pablo Las Delicias, in the north of GuatemalaMaría Baten cries for the lack of rain. “I don’t have water, I don’t have anything”says this mother of five children in the Mayan language, while wiping away tears. The drought threatens a food crisis in this area of Guatemala where the indigenous […]
Climate change accelerates the food crisis and exacerbates conflicts in Africa
Africa, a continent where climate disasters affected 110 million people and caused at least 5,000 deaths in 2022, suffers disproportionately from the effects of global warming, which will worsen the food crisis and it will increase the conflicts over resources that are already hitting it, warns today a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). […]
Food insecurity: the pending and urgent agenda
Approaches By Federico Arnillas, president of the Roundtable for the Fight against Poverty Generate food stock The first thing to recognize is that we are late. That seems to me to be the main element. So, the point of intervention has to do fundamentally with the management of the emergency. The critical factor is water, […]
What happens if the agreement on the Black Sea Grain Corridor is not extended?
The agreement that allows Ukraine export grain through Black Sea It expires on July 17, and Moscow says it sees no reason to extend it, so there are fears it may end. Because it is important? Ukraine is a major producer of grains and oilseeds, and the disruption of its exports at the outbreak of […]
Hunger and inflation: the consequences of the climate crisis in agriculture
Peruvian agriculture is not going through its best moment. In the last year, the ravages of droughts and rains with intensities not seen in several decades have been suffered, which aggravated the situation of the sector due to the crisis of fertilizers before the ineptitude of the Government to buy them. Now with Cyclone Yaku […]
Argentina: eating is a daily struggle for many, due to soaring prices
Gimena Páez is one of the women waiting her turn to pick up some meat in a community kitchen located in a neighborhood of Buenos Aires where, unlike others, the poverty not obvious. Every day she comes equipped with a bag to guarantee her daughter a ration of nutritious food. In the small premises located […]
“The drought is very ungrateful”, regret the Argentine agricultural producers
“Drought is very ungrateful”describes the producer Jorge Sáenz, to express the spirit of the farmers and the argentine governmentthe first because they do not know how they will finance the next campaign and the Executive because some 20,000 million would be lost exports in a country lacking foreign exchange. “The drought affects your mood. You […]
Drought deals a heavy blow to Argentina’s weak economy
The drought that affects the agricultural production of Argentinathe most severe in the last 60 years, is already making its effects felt in the country’s economy, with falls in exports and lower income for the Treasury. The lack of rain has been felt in the fertile and vast Argentine fields since mid-2022, a year that […]