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Aoyate drought in the late 18th or early 19th century; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; Sahel drought. 2010 Sahel famine; 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought; 2018–2021 Southern African drought; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought; 2021 Somali drought; Food security ...
Drought is a recurring feature of the climate in most parts of the world, becoming more extreme and less predictable due to climate change, which dendrochronological studies date back to 1900. There are three kinds of drought effects, environmental, economic and social.
Location Death toll (where known; estimated) 2200 BC – 2100 BC: The 4.2-kiloyear event caused famines and civilizational collapse worldwide: Global: 441 BC: The first famine recorded in ancient Rome. Ancient Rome [1] 114 BC Famine caused by drought during the third year in the Yuanding period.
One of the most notable droughts in recent years was the California drought that lasted three years from 2020 through 2022. A series of atmospheric rivers began moving through in 2022 that ...
These cows have become stuck, others because of drought, disease, and hunger, they are weak and unable to sustain themselves."Location: Chongqing, ChinaChongqing residents clamber along the dry ...
Global distribution of the 4.2 kiloyear event. The hatched areas were affected by wet conditions or flooding, and the dotted areas by drought or dust storms. [1] The 4.2-kiloyear (thousand years) BP aridification event (long-term drought), also known as the 4.2 ka event, [2] was one of the most severe climatic events of the Holocene epoch. [3]
Evidence of major droughts in the Eastern Mediterranean. Hittite and Ugarit records show requests for grain were sent to Egypt, probably during the reign of Pharaoh Merenptah. Carpenter has suggested that droughts of equal severity to those of the 1950s in Greece, would have been sufficient to cause the Late Bronze Age collapse. The cause may ...
The 1983 famine in Ghana, one of the most severe crises in the nation's history, stemmed from a confluence of drought, economic difficulties, and political turmoil. In the early 1980s, Ghana endured a significant drought that severely diminished crop production, constraining food supplies and resulting in widespread malnutrition and hunger. [2]