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    HARVEST PROSPECTS DETERIORATE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA FOLLOWING PROLONGED DRY SPELLS AND SEVERE FLOODS IN SEVERAL PARTS - 6 March 2001 2001
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    With about two months to the end of the cropping season in southern Africa, harvest prospects have deteriorated reflecting adverse weather in several parts. The season generally started normally with timely, abundant and well distributed rains, except in a few locations. However, a prolonged dry spell in January in parts of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa and Zimbabwe, stressed crops. Rains resumed from mid-February providing relief to previously dry areas, but were r ather excessive in parts causing flooding in low-lying areas in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. For Mozambique, which had not yet fully recovered from the worst floods in living memory last year, the fresh floods affected some 400 000 persons, mostly in the Zambezi valley, but also in other low-lying areas in the central provinces of Sofala, Tete and Zambezia. In Malawi, 200 000 people have been displaced, mainly in southern areas along the Shire River, while in Zambia flooding has occurred along the Zambezi and Luangwa rivers. Besides displacing people, the floods have submerged crops in the affected areas, compromising the food security of large numbers of families who now urgently need humanitarian assistance. However, so far the impact of the floods is not a significant threat to national food security. In Mozambique, the area lost is estimated at about 22 000 hectares, against 167 000 hectares lost to last year's devastating floods, which mainly affected southern provinces. B ut should the heavy rains continue in the coming weeks harvest prospects in Malawi and Mozambique could deteriorate.
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    Technical Assistance for Emergency Preparedness and Early Action for the Anticipated Severe Winter (DZUD) on the Vulnerable Households in Mongolia - TCP/MON/3804 2022
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    Climate change has intensified over the past 80 years in Mongolia, with the average air temperature increasing by 2 25 degrees Celsius, which is twice the global average More than three quarters of the entire territory of the country is subject to desertification to some extent, and half of the total area is already classified as heavily desertified The number of climate related hazards and natural disasters in the country has tripled in the last decade In recent years, 60 percent of the total land area of the country has been affected by drought, with some regions experiencing two consecutive years of it Additionally, in the summer of 2020 early warnings of a harsh winter became apparent, indicating the likelihood of dzud i e extreme winter weather conditions that cause high numbers of livestock deaths The probability of dzud in the winter and spring of 2020 2021 coincided with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19 pandemic, which brought about its own set of additional risks Owing to the signs of an impending dzud the government made a resolution to carry out a multisectoral risk assessment, which found that six aimags ( namely, Arkhangai Bayankhongor Govi Altai, Dundgovi Uvurkhangai and Tuv were at a high risk The National Meteorological Agency released a dzud risk map in December 2020 which further reinforced the high risk in these areas.
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