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Southern South America: What can we expect during a La Niña year?

Post Author:John Corbett
Post published:October 2, 2020
Post Category:Blog / Case Studies

What is a La Niña year? With a La Niña event already arriving, aWhere analysts reviewed what a typical La Niña year looks like in southern regions of South America.…

Weather-based monitoring for food security: Example of mycotoxins in maize

Post Author:David Bergvinson
Post published:September 16, 2020
Post Category:Blog

Optimizing mycotoxin monitoring of our grains supplies to ensure food safety Maize farmers across Europe face a range of production challenges. Fungal diseases on maize grain impacts yield, quality and…

Changing times for Russian wheat production against the backdrop of climate change

Post Author:David Bergvinson
Post published:July 22, 2020
Post Category:Blog

Global climate change presents long-term risks and opportunities for Russian agriculture. Agricultural crops have expanded northward, especially winter wheat. As was seen in 2010 and 2012, water scarcity is expected…

An aerial view shows flooded Kuma River caused by a heavy rain at a residential area in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo July 4, 2020. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN.

Extreme weather: Analysis of the recent flooding in Japan

Post Author:John Corbett
Post published:July 10, 2020
Post Category:Blog

Southern Japan, like many parts of the world, has experienced extreme weather events that exceeded the capacity of dams resulting in large-scale flooding, evacuation, loss of life and costly restoration…

Amazon Basin: Fire Risk 2020

Post Author:John Corbett
Post published:June 16, 2020
Post Category:Blog

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…