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Tue, 2018-04-10 23:13 — jperodin
This working group is focused on discussions about food security.

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How Climate Change Is Fuelling the U.S. Border Crisis

Wed, 2019-04-10 10:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Outside the small village of Chicua, in the western highlands, in an area affected by extreme-weather events, Ilda Gonzales looks after her daughter.

newyorker.com - by Jonathan Blitzer - Photography by Mauricio Lima - April 3, 2019

. . . In most of the western highlands, the question is no longer whether someone will emigrate but when. “Extreme poverty may be the primary reason people leave,” Edwin Castellanos, a climate scientist at the Universidad del Valle, told me. “But climate change is intensifying all the existing factors” . . . Farming, Castellanos has said, is “a trial-and-error exercise for the modification of the conditions of sowing and harvesting times in the face of a variable environment.” Climate change is outpacing the ability of growers to adapt.

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Country / Region Tags: 
Global
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Agriculture
Climate
Drought
Extreme Weather
Food
Land Use
Security
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

This woman was struggling to find fresh food. She never expected this solution.

Sun, 2018-09-23 22:57 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                

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upworthy.com - by Sam Dylan Finch - August 31, 2018

How do you get healthy food on the table when you can't find any?

This is a question that Ortilia Lujan Flores had grappled with many times before.

She wanted affordable, nutritious food, but lived in a neighborhood that didn’t have an accessible grocery store.

Flores couldn't drive, which limited the few food options she had. "There was nowhere to go," she explains.

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Country / Region Tags: 
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Agriculture
Food
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions
Problem
Situation Report

Grand Jury Reports - 2017 Fall Term – As Storm Clouds Gathered: The Preparation for and Aftermath of Hurricane Irma

Thu, 2018-08-02 15:35 — Kathy Gilbeaux

miamisao.com - Filed August 1, 2018

The Fall Term 2017 Grand Jury is releasing this report during Hurricane Season 2018, approximately one-and-a-half-months shy of the one year anniversary of Hurricane Irma making landfall in South Florida.  Based on information we received regarding the preparation for and the aftermath of Hurricane Irma’s impact on South Florida, this Grand Jury decided to conduct an investigation of this topic.

Grand Jury Reports - 2017 Fall Term – As Storm Clouds Gathered: The Preparation for and Aftermath of Hurricane Irma
(37 page .PDF document)
http://www.miamisao.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Grand-Jury-Fall-2017-Report-As-Storm-Clouds-Gathered-FINAL.pdf 

Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office - Grand Jury Reports
http://www.miamisao.com/resources/grand-jury-reports/

 

Country / Region Tags: 
US - SouthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Communication
Disaster Response
Emergency Management
Energy
Extreme Weather
Food
Housing / Shelter
Water
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report
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