Some people living near Colombian volcano are loath to evacuate
Bogota, ColombiaReuters Colombia’s government is trying to speed up the evacuation of some 2,500 families living closest to the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which is being monitored for a possible eruption, but some residents are refusing to leave. The volcano’s eruption in 1985 killed more than 25,000 people in Colombia’s biggest-ever natural disaster, with avalanches […]
Postcards: Winter drought dries up France’s Lake Montbel while in Spain church tower emerges from drought-parched reservoir
MANUEL AUSLOOS, of Reuters, reports from south-west France and ELENA RODRIGUEZ, NACHO DOCE, HORACI GARCIA and JOAN FAUS from Spain…
“Caught in a cycle”: India’s sugarcane workers suffer debt bondage as climate change bites
SANKET JAIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how climate shocks in Maharashtra ruin crops for many farmers leading some to migrate to sugarcane fields to seek work where some say they are trapped due to low pay, poor conditions…
Development partners commit $US30 billion to food production in Africa
Dakar, Senegal Reuters Development partners have committed $US30 billion to boost food production in Africa over the next five years, the president of the African Development Bank said on Friday at the close of a summit on food security on the continent. The continent is facing its worst food crisis ever, with more than one […]
“Better to be resilient”: How can drought-parched Somalia break out of endless crisis?
Boosting drought resilience, in part by focusing on local priorities, could cut long-term need for humanitarian aid, experts say. LAURIE GOERING, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Postcards: In the ruins of east Ukraine, farmers won’t leave their animals
HERBERT VILLARRAGA, of Reuters, reports from Yampil…
Tunisia’s milk shortage leaves farmers poor and the public angry
Tunis, Tunisia Reuters Tunisian dairy farmer Maher Gizmir has sold nearly half his cows this year and reduced his daily output by 85 per cent, adding to a shortage of milk around the country as a cash-strapped government wrestles with inflation. Like many other dairy farmers, Gizmir says he can no longer afford to produce […]
Land rights: In Colombia, occupations raise tensions and spook investors
NELSON BOCANEGRA, of Reuters, reports on the ongoing struggle over land in Colombia…
China’s farmers struggle to save crops as heatwave, drought drag on
Chongqing, China Reuters As the tinder-dry countryside along China’s Yangtze river basin withers under a heatwave that has lasted more than two months, veteran farmer Chen Xiaohua recalled the last severe drought to hit his crops more than 60 years ago. “This year is drier than 1960,” said Chen, 68, from his plot of land […]
Sardinian farmers suffer worst locust invasion in over 30 years
Milan, ItalyReuters When farmer Rita Tolu saw “a big black wave storming across the horizon and taking over the fields” in April, she knew that little of her dried fodder and alfalfa crops would be left in the following days. A swarm of locusts are seen on a field on the island of Sardinia, in […]