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Grain importer Algeria expects its cereal production for 2020 to fall 35-40% from last year’s 5 million tonnes because of drought, the head of its farmers’ union told Reuters. Algeria has in recent years harvested the bulk of its needs…
About 1.1 million people in the southern part of Madagascar face food insecurity as a prolonged drought and a sandstorm bring subsistence farming to a standstill, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. Without rains since December 2019,…
After two consecutive dry years, the California drought is back. How bad is it? “This is the worst drought since 1977,” said Ernest Conant, the federal Bureau of Reclamation’s California regional director. California melon farmer Joe Del Bosque called it…
Taiwan imposed power cuts on Monday evening following a spike in demand amid a heatwave and drought and failure at a power plant, in the second such outage in a week, although far fewer homes were affected. Power was restored…
Sun Moon Lake, an iconic tourist spot in Taiwan is turning into barren wasteland as the island is experiencing its worst water shortage crisis in 56 years due to months of scant rainfall and a lack of typhoons making landfall…
More than a dozen Nebraska counties have been designated as disaster areas because of drought. Over the past week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued disaster declarations for 17 counties, mostly in northeast and western Nebraska, the two areas where…
Under stress from a historic drought, large swathes of forest and wetlands in central South America known for their exceptional biodiversity have been ravaged by devastating fires. Experts on Friday said wildfires in a region that spans Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia…
The town of San Martín 2 is suffering the effects of the drought, in addition to human irresponsibility and strong winds. The consequences: kilometers of burned fields were lamented, deaths of cattle and small livestock, as well as vehicles, fences…
The federal government has declared Aroostook County a “drought disaster” area as the region faces a prolonged dry spell. This summer was one of the driest on record for The County — which has been placed under a severe drought…
Five villages in Rote Ndao regency in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) are suffering from clean water shortages as a result of extreme drought. Deskiel Haning of the Rote Ndao Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) said the five villages were Holulai, Nentenaen,…