Overall Green alert Drought for Nigeria-2024
in Nigeria

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 2 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1016995
Name: Nigeria-2024
Countries: Nigeria
Start Date: End of Feb 2024
Duration: 83 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 36693 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Articles: 30 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

‘Weather whiplash’ cycles of floods & droughts imperil Nigerian farmin ... 2024-05-15T20:16+0200.

Farmers in Nigeria — and other regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa — are suffering huge losses due to extreme weather shifts in quick succession, a phenomenon that researchers refer to as “weather whiplash.” Research shows a connect
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De la mano del IICA, 'suelos vivos' llega a África2024-05-13T00:05+0200.

Con esta se busca restaurar tierras degradadas, rehabilitar suelos ácidos, aumentar la productividad agrícola y mejorar la resiliencia climática en los sistemas agroalimentarios de tres agroecoregiones: la zona de la Sabana Guinea que inclu
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More people in countries with low human development index suffer from ... 2024-05-09T07:52+0200.

April 24, 2024. Countries with Human Development Index (HDI) lower than 0.78, had a higher impact, the findings showed. Likewise, the increasing number of the population impacted by climate-related disasters in countries with very high huma
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Assessing Africa’s Collaborative Efforts Towards Tackling Climate Chan ... 2024-05-08T14:56+0200.

By Gabriel Agbeja, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Experts have observed that Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change impacts under all climate scenarios above 1.5 degrees Celsius. The UN Environment Programme says Africa has
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),