Overall Green alert Drought for Colombia-2022
in Colombia

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 3 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1016076
Name: Colombia-2022
Countries: Colombia
Start Date: End of Nov 2022
Duration: 105 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 61485 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Los grandes desafíos de la frontera agrícola en Colombia2023-02-26T03:40+0100.

Según el artículo 65 de la Constitución, la producción de alimentos goza de la especial protección del Estado, quien además debe aumentar el rendimiento de la tierra mediante la investigación y la transferencia de tecnología al campo. Den
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Don’t blame climate change for South American drought2023-02-16T12:10+0100.

Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. The natural three-year climate condition La
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Don’t blame climate change for South American drought2023-02-16T11:52+0100.

Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. The natural three-year climate condition La
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Study: Don't blame climate change for South American drought2023-02-16T10:38+0100.

1 of 6 FILE - Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River, during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2021. Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),