You are here

Home

Vanuatu Risks Long-Term Food Insecurity After Monster Cyclone: U.N.

Primary tabs

Wed, 2015-04-01 15:51 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Many families affected by Tropical Cyclone Pam are forced to prepare their meals outdoors as seen here in Vanuatu. Photo: WFP/Victoria Cavanagh

reuters.com - by Alisa Tang - March 30, 2015

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The monster cyclone that hit Vanuatu earlier this month wiped out more than 90 percent of the archipelago's crops, putting its people at risk of a secondary emergency and long-term food insecurity, the United Nations warned on Monday.

Tropical Cyclone Pam destroyed homes, electricity infrastructure and crops when it swept across the South Pacific island nation on March 13, leaving at least 11 dead.

The United Nations issued an appeal last week for $29.9 million to provide an estimated 166,000 affected people with safe drinking water and shelter, but said only $6.4 million had been pledged.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Image - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=50412#.VRxJK-HlrAk

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Agriculture
Disaster Response
Emergency Management
Food
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem
Situation Report
Groups this Group Post belongs to: 
Emergency Management - Global
Agriculture and Food Security
Disaster Response Network

Comments

Wed, 2015-04-01 15:58 — Kathy Gilbeaux

un.org

30 March 2015 – Two weeks after Tropical Cyclone Pam struck Vanuatu, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the archipelago on a tour through one of the most severely affected provinces Saturday, warned of a “secondary emergency” and urged a scale-up in efforts to provide the essentials to people in need.

“It is heart breaking to see the extraordinary scale of devastation,” said Ms. Osnat Lubrani, touring the island of Tafea.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

howdy folks