Highlights: The publication provides a summary on the state of the climate indicators in 2023 with sections on key climate indicators, extreme events and impacts. The indicators include global temperatures, greenhouse...
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Disasters affect millions of people each year and cause economic losses worth many billions of dollars globally. Reporting on disaster impacts in research, policy, and news...
Highlights: Drought dampened economic activity in 2022, wiping out the agricultural sector and intensifying a humanitarian crisis. Relentless drought and high food prices weakened household...
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The Special Focus of the ‘’Fall 2023’’ ME’ analyzes the impact of the inflationary surge across the income distribution. It shows that inflation is substantially higher...
The empirical literature on the impacts of weather shocks on agricultural prices typically explores post-harvest price dynamics rather than pre-harvest ones. Inspired by the intra-annual competitive storage theory...
Climatic shocks are exerting pressure on livelihoods of Zimbabwe's smallholder farmer—who irrigate only 2% of their farms. The smallholder farmers in drought-prone areas are more...
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Multi-annual precipitation deficits combined with above-average temperatures and a sequence of heatwaves are the cause of the long-running and extensive drought in central-southern South America.
From August 2022...
This study traces the causal effects of extreme weather events on nutritional and health outcomes among rural children in Uganda using four waves of individual child survey...
The objective of the document is to provide an overview of existing partnerships in Zimbabwe to anticipate and address the impacts of drought. It also presents a summary of WFP’s capacity strengthening of the Meteorological Services...