El Nino: The case for urgent action
Publication date
2015-12-15Subject
Food and livelihoodsAid
Climate change
Conflict and disasters
Economics
Water, sanitation and hygiene
Keywords
Climate change adaptationDisaster risk management
Drought
Early warning system
Smallholder agriculture
Social protection
El Nino
Sustainable livelihoods approach
Disaster risk reductionDRRAgricultureDisastersFinanceFood securityLivelihoodsWASH
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Oxfam InternationalDocument type
Briefing noteDescription
Millions of poor and vulnerable people face hunger and poverty this year and next because of record global temperatures, droughts and erratic rains in 2014 and 2015, compounded by the development of possibly the most powerful El Nino on record. Strong leadership at every level of government and a coordinated international effort are required to avoid the failures of the 2011 Horn of Africa drought, when the international system was slow to respond and widespread suffering ensued. Urgent humanitarian response is required in places already in crisis such as parts of Ethiopia.
This paper focuses particularly on other places, where the crisis is currently unfolding, and where there is still the opportunity for rapid action to mitigate the worst impacts of El Nino.