El Nino causes one of the worst droughts in 50 years in southern Africa
Published on by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks)
The El Nino weather phenomenon, one of the worst in 50 years, has caused intense drought in southern Africa that will have a "devastating" impact on the region's food security, the UN food agency warned on Friday.
The region's "intense drought... has expanded and strengthened since the earliest stages of the 2015-2016 agricultural season, driven by one of the strongest El Nino events of the last 50 years".
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http://phys.org/news/2016-02-drought-el-nino-threatening-southern.htmlTaxonomy
- Agriculture
- Drought
- Climate Change