There has been much discussion on climate change and its adverse effects on agriculture, including excessive loss of food production. In regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture is the...
Tanzania + 2 more
Tanzania + 2 more
There has been much discussion on climate change and its adverse effects on agriculture, including excessive loss of food production. In regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture is the...
World + 19 more
This report accompanies the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research’s 2022 publication Stress Testing the UN’s Regional Prevention Approaches. This project was designed to take stock of...
World + 14 more
The UN has increasingly become an organization focused on regional engagement. Better understanding and responding to risks at the regional level was a key priority for the 2017 reform initiated by...
Nigeria + 2 more
INTRODUCTION This paper seeks to address three interconnected policy questions: First how do global illicit flows impact on local conflict dynamics? Are there specific conceptual features that can be...
Somalia + 7 more
Climate change drives people into harm’s way, says UN Refugee Chief A new report based on scores of personal testimonies from refugees in Eastern Africa finds that climate change can make people more...
Benin + 12 more
Sécurité alimentaire: le changement climatique, les migrations et les conflits au Sahel Déclaration conjointe du Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement, de l'Organisation Internationale...
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Changes in Climate Trends Impacting Livelihoods and Food Security in the Sahel and West Africa A new study has found that the impacts of changing climatic conditions on the availability of natural...
This assessment reviewed forecasts and impacts of the 1997-98 El Niño, as well as the climate-related early warning and natural disaster preparedness systems in the following locations in order to...
Indonesia + 1 more
The 1997-98 El Niño had significant social and economic implications for Indonesia. A large part of the country suffered from severe drought, resulting in a huge short-fall in rice production that...
China + 1 more
China is the largest developing country in the world with a vast territory and nearly 1.3 billion people. Great differences in climate are found from region to region owing to China's extensive...
Bangladesh + 1 more
Bangladesh is one of the worst victim regions of El Niño/La Niña impacts. The existing geophysical and socio-economic settings of the country help increase both the vulnerability to and severity of...
Philippines + 1 more
The main purpose of the project was to enhance the understanding of El Niño issues through a review of current early warning and preparedness systems in national, regional and global contexts; and...
Panama + 1 more
The Canal authorities do not have the resources to forecast El Niño events and, therefore, it depends on the information that it acquires from international institutions that forecast and monitor the...
Ecuador + 1 more
At the end of March 1997, anomalous conditions were present in both the tropical Pacific Ocean and atmosphere, and during May these anomalies and their interactions confirmed the development of an El...
Cuba + 1 more
The Republic of Cuba is an independent state, located in the Meso-American Caribbean Sea and at the entrance of The Gulf of Mexico. Cuba is the biggest insular state in this basin and it is...
Costa Rica + 1 more
With the announcement of the 1997-98 El Niño at the beginning of 1997, Costa Ricans began a massive response at the national level. National media, government ministries, agriculture and fisheries...
PNG + 1 more
Situated close to the normal warm water pool of the southwest Pacific, Papua New Guinea can be seriously, and quickly, affected by El Niño events. Historically the most common direct effect of the...
Kenya + 1 more
This project was carried out for the country Kenya, which lies between latitudes 5 degrees North and 5 degrees south south and between longitudes 34 and 42 east. Kenya has land area of about 569,137...
Viet Nam + 1 more
Because of its geographical setting, Vietnam has a long history of coping with weather- and climate-related hazards such as storms, floods and droughts. As a result, it has developed a comprehensive...
Mozambique + 1 more
The 1997-1998 was noted in a special SNAPSA bulletin in March 1997, but the first serious Mozambican report on it took place in July 1997, and was the result of papers sent from the Drought...