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Investigating the Complex Issue of Drought
GLOBAL, JUL 2 – The report warns drought, driven by climate change and El Niño, threatens food, water, and economies globally, affecting over 90 million people in Africa alone, and costing countries up to 10% of GDP.
- On July 3, 2025, a report titled "Drought Hotspots Around the World 2023-2025" was published, revealing widespread drought impacts globally.
- This report follows severe droughts between 2023 and 2025, worsened by climate change and El Niño, which caused water shortages, crop failures, and livestock deaths.
- Key details include a 70% corn crop loss and 9,000 cattle deaths in Zimbabwe last year, plus a sharp drop in Panama Canal ship transits from 38 to 24 daily.
- UNCCD program officer Daniel Tsegai highlighted that conventional methods for addressing drought have become inadequate, stressing the need for investments in long-term resilience that yield a sevenfold return on recovery efforts.
- The report warns drought affects all sectors and countries, highlights escalating threats to food, water, health, and energy, and calls for urgent global cooperation and proactive management.
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Rising global temperatures seem to be having a significant impact on one of the world's largest producers of tea. What's happening? Kenya, the world's leading exporter of black tea, is facing a devastating drought. Lakes, rivers, and reservoirs are drying up, and agriculture is taking a huge hit. The Tea Board of Kenya reported a significant decline in tea production — down nearly 20 percent from the previous year — according to The Peninsula in…
Investigating the complex issue of drought
Too little rain, too little water in the landscape—so simple, so serious. Even if the drought is obvious because freshwaters carry less water, plants wither and the soil becomes brittle and cracked, the drying out itself is a complex process in which the spatial context plays an important role.
Europe's Heatwaves and Drought Are Demanding Urgent Global Climate Action - teleSUR English
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Droughts Worldwide Push Millions Towards Starvation
“Drought is pushing tens of millions of people to the edge of starvation around the world, in a foretaste of a global crisis that is rapidly deepening with climate breakdown,” The Guardian reports. “More than 90 million people in eastern and southern Africa are facing extreme hunger after record-breaking drought across many areas, ensuing widespread crop failures and the death of livestock. In Somalia, a quarter of the population is now edging t…
There are those who do not suffer hunger and there are those who do. To this second group belongs one in every eleven inhabitants of the planet. In a situation of moderate food insecurity is found 29% of the world population. If we ever set out (we, the countries that participate in multilateral agencies such as UN and FAO) to eradicate hunger by 2030, today we already anticipate that that good desire will not be fulfilled.
Expert: New drought era signals global systemic risk
Humanity has entered a "new era of drought," as the world grapples with an escalating systemic drought risk, Daniel Tsegai, program officer at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), said in a recent interview.
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