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Drought in East Africa
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Published January 21, 2011
This vegetation map shows the devastating impact of drought on East Africa in January 2011.
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Bumper Crops in China
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Published July 21, 2010
This vegetation image shows expansive plant growth in northern and eastern China under nearly ideal weather in June 2010.
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Predicting Rift Valley Fever
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Published February 15, 2009
Using satellite data, scientists predicted an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in East Africa months before the first human cases were reported. The early prediction gave governments time to mitigate the spread of the disease.
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Poor Harvest in Kenya
Published January 17, 2009
Ten million people could face hunger in Kenya after a poor harvest, Kenya’s government warned on January 9, 2009. According to the Associated Press, the government declared a state of emergency to free up funds for food aid.
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Locusts in Australia
Published November 20, 2008
In November 2008, the Australian Plague Locust Commission reported that a few small swarms of locusts had started to develop in New South Wales.
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Locusts in West Africa
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Published August 15, 2008
The summer of 2004 was not a good one for farmers in many West African countries. Locusts swarmed over their fields with all the force of a biblical plague, consuming crops and pasture and leaving devastation in their wake.
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Drought in Ethiopia
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Published June 2, 2008
By the end of May 2008, millions faced hunger in eastern Ethiopia as crops failed and food prices soared.
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Drought in Iraq
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Published June 1, 2008
One of the worst droughts in the past decade settled heavily over the Fertile Crescent region of Iraq and Syria in the winter of 2007-2008. Under normal conditions, winter rain and rivers flowing from the mountains of Turkey sustain the rich agricultural land that has fed humanity from the dawn of civilization. But little to no rain fell between October and December during the crucial planting period, and sparse rain fell in the months that followed, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
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