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Amazon Basin: Fire Risk 2020

Post Author:John Corbett
Post published:June 16, 2020
Post Category:Blog
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Weather Analysis for the Amazon Basin: Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil The fires in 2019 caused immense damage across the Amazon Basin. A combination of fires being set to clear…

aWhere Case Study: India

Post Author:Lauren Allognon
Post published:June 3, 2020
Post Category:Blog / Case Studies

COVID, CLIMATE and FOOD Series COVID In response to the coronavirus, India went into strict lockdown from March 25-May 17 and is only now beginning to reopen (NYT). Cases are…

Extreme Weather during a Pandemic

Post Author:Lauren Allognon
Post published:May 28, 2020
Post Category:Blog

COVID, CLIMATE and FOOD Series Climate change is not only making extreme weather events more intense but they are also occurring more frequently. This phenomenon is not necessarily new, but…

Swarms of desert locusts fly up into the air from crops in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions from Somalia and Ethiopia, countries that haven't seen such numbers in a quarter-century, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Compounding Crises: Locusts and COVID-19

Post Author:Lauren Allognon
Post published:May 20, 2020
Post Category:Blog

COVID, CLIMATE and FOOD Series The second swarm of locusts has been descending on East Africa and putting the food security of millions of people at risk. East Africa has…

Food Security in the era of global challenges: COVID-19 and Climate Change

Post Author:Lauren Allognon
Post published:May 14, 2020
Post Category:Blog

COVID, CLIMATE and FOOD Series Food security means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food…

Locating Populations at Risk

Post Author:Lauren Allognon
Post published:May 8, 2020
Post Category:Blog

COVID, CLIMATE and FOOD Series Global challenges such as climate change and pandemics make vulnerable populations even more vulnerable. Poorer communities have fewer resources to adapt to climate change or…

Introducing new blog series: COVID, CLIMATE and FOOD

Post Author:David Bergvinson
Post published:May 1, 2020
Post Category:Blog

Unprecedented global challenges posed by COVID-19 and its ripple effects on jobs and food security calls for bold and effective partnerships. UN Secretary General, Mr. Guterres, put out a clarion…

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Financial exposure due to climate change: How to adapt quickly

Post Author:David Bergvinson
Post published:February 28, 2020
Post Category:Blog

Human life "as we know it" could be threatened by climate change states economists at JP Morgan. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the head of asset management for $7 trillion announced…

The Sahel: Weather data insights to adapt rainfed agriculture to climate change

Post Author:John Corbett
Post published:February 25, 2020
Post Category:Blog

Precipitation patterns are changing and with high resolution observed rainfall surfaces, crop production systems can be more effectively managed to reduce the risk of food insecurity. Detailed weather data is…

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Climate change and Desert Locust Swarms

Post Author:Lauren Allognon
Post published:February 19, 2020
Post Category:Blog

There is increasing evidence of a correlation between climate change and desert locust swarms. The recent outbreak of desert locusts across eastern Africa is causing devastating losses to agricultural production…