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Showing posts with label Central America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central America. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Do you know about FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network?

Organisation:
FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network
 
From the About Us webpage:
FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, is a leading provider of early warning and analysis on acute food insecurity around the world.  
 
Created in 1985 by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in response to devastating famines in East and West Africa, FEWS NET provides unbiased, evidence-based analysis to governments and relief agencies who plan for and respond to humanitarian crises. FEWS NET analyses support resilience and development programming as well. FEWS NET analysts and specialists work with scientists, government ministries, international agencies, and NGOs to track and publicly report on conditions in the world’s most food-insecure countries.
 
This organisation reports on:
* Monthly reports and maps detailing current and projected food insecurity 
 
* Alerts on emerging or likely crises 
 
* Special reports on factors that contribute to or mitigate food insecurity, including weather and climate, markets and trade, agricultural production, conflict, livelihoods, nutrition, and humanitarian assistance 
 
* Access to data, learning, and analysis of the underlying dynamics of recurrent and chronic food insecurity and poor nutritional outcomes, to improve early warning and better inform response and program design 

Click here for the FEWS NET website
 

Saturday, February 15, 2020

Research by an international team of scientists led by University of New Mexico Professor Yemane Asmerom - Warmer climate leads to current trends of social unrest and mass migration: study

Title of short article:
Warmer climate leads to current trends of social unrest and mass migration: study

Author:
University of New Mexico

Published:
Pys.org, 14 February 2020

From the article:
"Research by an international team of scientists led by University of New Mexico Professor Yemane Asmerom suggests contraction of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) during a warming Earth, leading in turn to drying of the Neotropics, including Central America, and aggravating current trends of social unrest and mass migration."

To read this article:
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-warmer-climate-current-trends-social.html