When the Rains Don’t Fall
For many Sri Lankans, the effects of climate change can be summed up in one word: rainfall. “The biggest impact (of climate change) is rainfall or the lack of it,” W L Sumathipala, one of Sri Lanka’s...
View ArticleSurviving on a Meal a Day in Ghana’s Savannah Zone
In order to ensure that he and his family survive this year’s failed harvest, Adams Seidu, like farmers in other rural communities in Ghana’s Northern Region, has implemented a strategy for survival....
View ArticleLivelihoods Drying Up on Malawi’s Lake Chilwa
Fisherfolk and farmers living near Malawi’s second-largest water body, Lake Chilwa, are relocating en masse and scrambling for space around its shores as the lake has dried to dangerously low levels....
View ArticleMauritania’s Date Palms, Cultural Heritage and Means of Survival
“The palm tree is a means of survival,” said Tahya Mint Mohamed, a 44-year-old Mauritanian farmer and mother of three children. “We eat its dates; we make mats, beds and chairs from palms; the leaves...
View Article“The Truth is That All Problems Have Solutions” – Even Climate Change in...
Eight years ago Kenbesh Mengesha earned an uncertain income collecting firewood from local government forests and selling them to her fellow slum-dwellers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She would earn on...
View ArticleFears for Food Security Rise with West African Floodwaters
Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by heavy flooding along the Niger River over the last few weeks. Niger, Mali and Benin have been particularly hard hit, with dozens of deaths, tens of...
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Kashmiri Farmers Unprepared for Drought
Maryam Akhtar, a farmer in Kashmir, worries the taps will not yield enough water for her family's daily needs. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPSZareena Bano has had to skip school 17 times this year to help...
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Untimely Rains Hit Cuban Tobacco Harvest
Yamilé Venero strings tobacco leaves onto long poles for natural curing on the Valle farm, in the municipality of San Juan y Martínez, the centre of production of this preeminently Cuban crop. Credit:...
View ArticleFood Insecurity a New Threat for Lebanon’s Syrian Refugees
By Mona AlamiBEIRUT, Jul 22 2014 (IPS)A declining economy and a severe drought have raised concerns in Lebanon over food security as the country faces one of its worst refugee crises, resulting from...
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Drought and Misuse Behind Lebanon’s Water Scarcity
Tank trucks being filled with water in front of Osman Bin Affan Mosque in Beirut. Credit: Oriol Andrés Gallart/IPSBy Oriol Andrés GallartBEIRUT, Jul 28 2014 (IPS)In front of Osman Bin Affan Mosque, in...
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Trapped Populations – Hostages of Climate Change
When a natural disaster strikes, people are sometimes left with no choice but to leave the areas affected. Yet, for some, even this option might not exist. Cyclone survivors in Myanmar shelter in the...
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Africa Advised to Take DIY Approach to Climate Resilience
Carcases of dead sheep and goats stretch across the landscape following drought in Somaliland in 2011, one of the climate impacts that experts say should be actively tackled by African countries...
View ArticleJamaica’s Aging Water Systems Falter Under Intense Heat and Drought
This past summer Jamaicans sweltered through their third consecutive year of reduced rainfall resulting in wild fires, a crop-killing drought and daily water cuts. As temperatures exceeded 93.7 F (34.2...
View ArticleBeekeeping Helps Pakistan Farmers Cope with Crop Losses
Farmers in the rain-dependent district of Chakwal in Punjab province of Pakistan are finding relief in beekeeping as the groundnut crop suffers a blow from shifting rainfall patterns. Drought...
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Jamaica’s Drought Tool Could Turn the Table on Climate Change
By Zadie NeufvilleKINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan 13 2016 (IPS)On a very dry November 2013, Jamaica’s Meteorological Service made its first official drought forecast when the newly developed Climate...
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