Tag Archives : drought

The passing away this week of Norman Borlaug, the father of Green Revolution that ‘created high-yielding wheat varieties to stave off famine,’ is a reminder that his well-intended campaign did not end up as he dreamed it would. Today, there is prevailing hunger in the world in spite of the potential to have so much food. Little did Borlaug imagine [...]

The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, summoned on Monday (17) the regional government leaders for a emergency meeting on the drought that reaches the country. The Indian meteorological department indicated, on August 13, that the precipitations were 29% below the average. Of the 626 districts of India, 177 were affected by a drought, that can [...]

They were mired in heavy debt that could not be paid to money lenders because their crops failed to yield enough. The agricultural state of Chattisgarh, a widely agricultural region in India, has been devastated by poor water resources that farming badly needs, with water levels dipping below 250 feet from 40 feet during the past years. There were [...]

Water scarcity, pollution, and sanitation were the main talking points in the Ministerial-level talks among more than 100 ministers from 190 participating countries meeting at the recent World Water Forum in Istanbul. The main premise is that water has become one of the world’s worsening problems. The content of heated debates is whether water should [...]

China first demonstrated their conviction to control pollution and fog before Olympics by taking all kinds of measures right from shutting down polluting industries to keeping vehicles off the street. Now they have gone a step ahead and manipulated the very weather by seeding clouds by spraying chemicals. The result though was snowfall instead of rain. [...]

Central and northern China have been under an alarming winter drought for three months now. The places that are affected have been put on maximum alert. Some 300 million yuan have been released by the government, in addition to the 100 million already pledged, to combat the consequences of the lack of water for agriculture and residential areas. 10.33 [...]

Katine is a tranquil pastoral county in northeastern Uganda. The only way of life in this village is farming. Their entire livelihood involves cattle. In the 1990s, a semi-nomadic tribe came down from the hills and stole the cattle. This posed a bigger difficulty for the women of the village since they do most of the farming. As in most rural agricultural [...]