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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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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.

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BBC News broke the news in United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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