Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting

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China offered to host an international centre for collaboration on drought related issues in the region.

Africa s problems have more to do with droughts, malaria, AIDS, and lack of infrastructure.

Closer cooperation has been sought with specialized organizations that deal with drought, agricultural production and productivity in drylands.

In drought affected areas, the midday meal scheme has allowed children who otherwise would have starved to overcome malnourishment.

7. Encourages the Government of Ethiopia to continue to strengthen its efforts to address the underlying structural causes of recurrent threats of drought as part of its overall economic development programme

With that in mind, the Government had promoted the distribution of State land to landless tenants, easy availability of credit, and relief to drought affected areas.

This part of China s southwest, known for its abundant rainfall, mountains, underground rivers and caves, and tropical flora, has recently been gripped by a drought that many say is the worst since the Ming Dynasty.

No Maoist group could ever gain a toehold in Afghanistan s parched Pashtun south (these were, after all, people who, bare knuckled, smashed the Soviets).

The need for wider involvement of national scientists and experts on drought and of meteorologists in the process of preparation and implementation of the NAPs and or national strategies was also stressed during the workshop.

Ethiopia noted that the growth of its economy is highly influenced by climate variability, particularly drought, so one of its agricultural policies is to increase production (both quality and quantity) of food crops to ensure food self sufficiency.

Noting with grave concern the high mortality rates of over 80 per cent of livestock in the worst affected areas of the Sool and Sanaag plateau of Somalia and the high risk of starvation of Somali nomads,

Noting with grave concern the high mortality rate of over 80 per cent of livestock in the worst affected areas of the Sool, Sanaag and Togdheer plateaux of Somalia and the high risk of starvation of Somali nomads,

While most of the country was affected by the drought, 14 provinces were acutely affected and up to 37 per cent of the population or 11.1 million people  were not able to cover their basic food and other needs.

According to the work plan of the GoE determined in the Hamburg meeting of GoE, 2002, one of its tasks is to determine the criteria on the basis of which the new atlas can be accomplished, and to prepare recommendations for the terms of reference for, and the development of, mapping the sensitivity of areas affected by drought and desertification.

In addition to the circulation of information, the role of these systems is (i) to prepare existing data in order to make them accessible (ii) to facilitate monitoring of desertification and environmental degradation phenomena (iii) to evaluate the impact of desertification control projects and programmes (iv) to predict and measure the impact of drought related disasters.