Natural Disasters

Germany considering aid for livestock farms after drought

Germany’s government is considering special aid for livestock farmers to help them overcome a sharp rise in animal feed prices after this summer’s drought, German agriculture minister Julia Kloeckn

Publication Date: 
02/08/2018
Reuters
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Droughts, Disaster Management, Livestock, Germany, Drought Relief, Europe
Climate Change

Not a silver bullet: why the focus on insurance to address loss and damage is a distraction from real solutions

This study argues that the focus on insurance by developed countries is too narrow and comes at the expense of a serious consideration of other options. Insurance is only one tool in a much larger toolbox.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2018
Julie-Anne Richards, Liane Schalatek
Heinrich Boell Foundation
Tags:
Climate Change, Insurance, Natural Disasters, Finance, Private Sector, Droughts, Dominica, Malawi, United States Of America (US)
Natural Disasters

Natural disasters 2017: lower mortality, higher cost

This report provides a comprehensive summary of disaster events, losses and fatalities due to disasters in 2017. In general, the data reported suggests an emerging trend in natural disaster events demonstrating lower mortality but higher cost.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2018
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Floods, Earthquakes, Cyclones, India, Global, Storms, Droughts
Climate Change

Climate change impacts, adaptation and policy preferences: a snapshot of farmers’ perceptions in India

The study has brought out clearly that farmers perceive that climate is changing in terms of onset and withdrawal of monsoon, changes in the distribution of rainfall and rising temperatures.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2018
C A Rama Rao, B M K Raju, A V M S Rao, & et al
National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Adaptation, Farmers, India, Floods, Droughts
Natural Disasters

Australia’s drought is like a cancer eating away at farms and families

From ground level, Australia’s drought looks like a featureless, brown dustbowl, but from the air it transforms into an artistry of color and texture as the land cracks under a blazing sun.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2018
Reuters
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Droughts, Australia, Agriculture, Cattle, Livestock
Natural Disasters

German farmers step up $1 bln aid call after drought damage

German farmers intensified calls for around 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) in special aid on Tuesday after crop damage from a drought and heatwave, but Berlin said it would wait for an August harv

Publication Date: 
01/08/2018
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Droughts, Germany, Farmers, Agriculture, Europe
Climate Change

District-level assessment of the ecohydrological resilience to hydroclimatic disturbances and its controlling factors in India

The carbon and water cycles play an important role in ecosystem functioning and are linked to each other through different physical and biological processes. The hydroclimatic disturbances such as droughts affect both hydrological as well as the ecological processes.

Publication Date: 
31/07/2018
Ashutosh Sharma, Manish Kumar Goyal
Journal of Hydrology
564
1048-1057
Tags:
Droughts, Hydrology, India, Remote Sensing, Ecosystems, Heat Waves, Rainfall Pattern, Land Use, Forests, Natural Disasters, Green House Gases, Climate Change
Climate Change

Patterns of longer-term climate change effects on CO2 efflux from biocrusted soils differ from those observed in the short term

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are predicted to be sensitive to the increased temperature and altered precipitation associated with climate change. We assessed the effects of these factors on soil carbon dioxide (CO2) balance in biocrusted soils using a sequence of manipulations over a 9-year period. We warmed biocrusted soils by 2 and, later, by 4 ◦C to better capture updated forecasts of future temperature at a site on the Colorado Plateau, USA.

Publication Date: 
26/07/2018
Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Sasha C. Reed, Edmund E. Grote & et al
Biogeosciences
15
4561–4573
Tags:
Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Impacts, Soil Capability, Green House Gases, Droughts, United States Of America (US), Rainfall
Natural Disasters

El Salvador declares emergency to ensure food supply in severe drought

El Salvador on Tuesday began taking emergency measures in a drought that has plagued the country for a month and cost tens of thousands of farmers their corn crops, the civil protection agency said

Publication Date: 
25/07/2018
Reuters
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Droughts, Food Supply, El Salvador, Agriculture, Farmers
Natural Disasters

Drought could cut German supplies of potatoes for French fries

A drought and heat wave in Europe this summer could cause a shortage of potatoes big enough for industrial production of French fries, a German industry group warned on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
25/07/2018
Reuters
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Droughts, Agriculture, Potato, Heat Waves, Europe, Germany

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