{"id":17750,"date":"2024-06-04T12:54:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/?p=17750"},"modified":"2024-08-15T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T12:49:49","slug":"el-nino-weather-brings-food-insecurity-to-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/el-nino-weather-brings-food-insecurity-to-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o Weather Patterns Causing Severe Food Insecurity in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"
Maize yields in Malawi are expected to fall significantly. <\/p>
Dry weather conditions caused by El Ni\u00f1o have meant that 4.4 million people, that\u2019s more than one in five people living in Malawi, faced crisis levels of food insecurity between June 2023 and March 2024, requiring urgent interventions.<\/p>
That\u2019s according to a newly published multi-agency report on the adverse impact El Ni\u00f1o weather changes have had in one of southern Africa\u2019s poorest countries.<\/p>
Self Help Africa joined eight other international organisations to prepare the El Ni\u00f1o Situation Report, which surveyed households across Malawi. It concluded that:<\/p>
This year\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o was accompanied by a strong Indian Ocean Dipole, which refers to changes to sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean. The phenomenon was blamed on a delay in the onset of customary seasonal rains in Malawi and prolonged dry spells.<\/p>
Read the full \u2018MALAWI \u2013 El Ni\u00f1o Situation Report 2024\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dry weather caused by the 2024 El Ni\u00f1o have meant that 4.4 million people faced crisis levels of food insecurity from June 2023 – March 2024.<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,687,677,637],"tags":[1081,782],"class_list":["post-17750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture-nutrition","category-climate-change","category-malawi","category-news","tag-el-nino","tag-food-crisis"],"yoast_head":"\n