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Agricultural Climate Resilience Enhancement Initiative (ACREI)
Multi-National projects
Agriculture and food security
ACREI is a US$ 6.8 million project funded by the Adaptation Fund and implemented by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Integovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC).
Multi-agency report highlights the current and future state of the climate in Africa
Press Release
Climate change, Disaster risk reduction, Tropical cyclones, Drought, Agriculture and food security
Publish Date: 26 October 2020
Increasing temperatures and sea levels, changing precipitation patterns and more extreme weather are threatening human health and safety, food and water security and socio-economic development in Africa, according to a new report devoted exclusively to the continent.
Disaster-related displacement in a changing climate
Weather, Climate, Disaster risk reduction, Environment, Natural hazards, Agriculture and food security, El Niño / La Niña
Bulletin nº Vol 65 (1) - 2016
Theme: Disaster risk reduction
21
Publish Date: 21 March 2016
Climate-related displacement is already a global reality. Every year, the lives of millions of people are affected when they are displaced by the impacts of weather and climate hazards. Some of the largest disasters make the international headlines, but most disasters do not even make the national news.
FOCUS-Africa launched
News
Agriculture and food security, Energy, Water, Partnership, Climate services
Publish Date: 21 September 2020
WMO and 20 partners have held the kick-off meeting to launch FOCUS-Africa - Fully Optimized User Centric Climate Services Value Chain for Southern Africa - a four-year 7 million Euro initiative funded by the European Commission.
DE-RISK South East Asia
Regional Projects
Agriculture and food security, Environment, Natural hazards
Climate change is threatening the livelihoods and food security of millions of smallholder farmers and agribusiness who depend on agriculture in the South East Asia region. Despite the fact that...
Report Shows Cloud Seeding can generate Snowfall
Clouds
Meteoworld : April 2020
We can definitely say that cloud seeding enhances snowfall under the right conditions," said Sarah Tessendorf, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and co-author of Quantifying snowfall from orographic cloud seeding, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in late February.
Desert locust threat continues
News
Environment, Agriculture and food security
Publish Date: 17 July 2020
Desert locusts continue to be a serious threat to food security and agriculture in parts of East Africa and India and Pakistan as a result of favourable climate and environmental conditions, according to new updates.
Wetter than average rainy season for Sahelian strip
News
Climate, Meteorology, Floods, Agriculture and food security
Publish Date: 27 April 2020
The 2020 rainy season for the Sudanian and Sahelian zones is expected to be wetter than average. Indeed, above average rainfall amounts relative to the 1981-2010 period are expected over the entire Sahelian strip.
International Cloud Atlas translated into official UN languages
Press Release
Clouds, Weather
Publish Date: 9 April 2020
The International Cloud Atlas - the global reference for identifying clouds – has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
Heavy rains contribute to desert locust crisis in East Africa
News
Environment, Climate, Weather, Agriculture and food security
Publish Date: 18 February 2020
Unusual weather and climate conditions, including widespread and heavy rains since October 2019, have contributed to a serious and widespread Desert locust outbreak, which threatening rural food security across East Africa.