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- Drought - World Health Organization (WHO)
Drought is a prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world It is a slow-onset disaster characterized by the lack of precipitation, resulting in a water shortage Drought can have a serious impact on health, agriculture, economies, energy and the environment
- Climate change: Land degradation and desertification
Land degradation has accelerated during the 20 th and 21 st centuries due to increasing and combined pressures of agricultural and livestock production (over-cultivation, overgrazing, forest conversion), urbanization, deforestation and extreme weather events such as droughts and coastal surges, which salinate land
- El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
ENSO-related droughts and heavy rainfalls can therefore jeopardize food security Some of the worst food crisis events have been associated with ENSO The world food crisis of 1982–84, the most severe recorded, was also linked to El Niño, including famines that struck populations in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel
- Climate change - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO fact sheet on climate change and health: provides key facts, patterns of infection, measuring health effects and WHO response
- Floods - World Health Organization (WHO)
Between 80-90% of all documented disasters from natural hazards during the past 10 years have resulted from floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, heat waves and severe storms Floods are also increasing in frequency and intensity, and the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation is expected to continue to increase due to climate change
- Disaster - World Health Organization (WHO)
Major natural disasters in Viet Nam in 2016 The El Niño-induced drought and saline intrusion emergency had adversely impacted the lives of 2 million people, including 520 000 children and a million women with shortage of water and food and lack of humanitarian assistance Four hundred thousand (400 000) people became at risk of drought-related diseases or infectious disease outbreaks in 18
- Climate crisis - extreme weather
Leading climate-related causes of death, illness and suffering result from exposure to increasingly frequent and more intense extreme weather events, including heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storm surges, as well as slow-onset events such as droughts
- Situation Report: Greater Horn of Africa Drought and Food Insecurity . . .
Overview The Greater Horn of Africa Region continues to face a dire food insecurity crisis driven by several evolving factors such as extreme weather events (floods, droughts), conflict, the impact of the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic All countries in the region (Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda, and Ethiopia) are facing outbreaks of epidemic prone diseases
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