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Drought Hits the Heartland of USA

Nora — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:46:28 +0000

Stockholm Water Front No.4 2012 article

Worldwide, 2012 has been the year of drought. From the Midwest of the USA to the granaries of the Black Sea, from South Asia to the Sahel region of Africa, producers the world over have had to find ways to farm their land in the face of ravaging droughts or feeble monsoons. Both largeholders in food exporting regions and small-holders in poor countries have been hit by these droughts, which have had significant impacts on local and global food prices and thus on food security throughout the world, with potentially more impacts still to come.

Next big advance will be in catastrophe resilience

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:49:24 +0000

The 2011 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate, Prof. Stephen R. Carpenter believes that the need to deal with large catastrophic events such as floods and droughts will make us rethink how or landscapes and institutions are built.

Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought

Nora — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:45:13 +0000

In Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, author James Workman tells the story of the Kalahari Bushmens struggle to stay on their homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana and the Botswana governments efforts to drive them from those lands.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 3-4 2009.