Overall Orange Drought alert for Southern Europe-2023 in Spain, Greece, Italy, Malta, Türkiye from 11 Aug 2023 00:00 UTC to 10 May 2024 00:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Drought for Southern Europe-2023

in Spain, Greece, Italy, Malta, Türkiye

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 9 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID	DR 1016679
Name:	Southern Europe-2023
Glide number:	DR-2023-000267-ALB
Countries:	Spain, Greece, Italy, Malta, Türkiye
Start Date:	Middle of Aug 2023
Duration:	320 days
Impact:	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 335245 km2
More info:	Global Drought Observatory

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 258 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Spagna elimina l'iva sull'olio di olivaAl Consiglio dei ministri odier ... 2024-06-25T12:50+0200.

La Spagna viene in aiuto alla sua industria dell'olio in crisi e lo fa con una misura storica: l'eliminazione dell'Iva sull'olio d'oliva. La misura è stata annunciata da Luis Planas , ministro spagnolo dell'Agricoltura, della pesca e dell'a

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Food prices continue to hover at near record levels due to continued w ... 2024-06-24T10:42+0200.

Figures from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) which looked at ONS data, blamed extreme weather and climate change for the 40% increase in food prices. It claims a shopping basket of food has gone up by £10, from £24 to £34, s

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Il Marocco sarà un incubo per la Spagna che torna in campo grazie alla ... 2024-06-22T16:14+0200.

Il Marocco sta imparando da alcuni paesi per migliorare la propria produzione agricola . Alcuni di loro si sono concentrati sul miglioramento dei cocomeri, uno dei frutti estivi. I problemi di siccità hanno spinto il Marocco a guardare all’

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Analytical report

06/Mar/2024 14:00 UTC

GDO analytical report imported in GDACS update automatic procedure

Analytical report

23/Feb/2024 09:05 UTC

GDO analytical report imported in GDACS update automatic procedure

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),

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