The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that two million animals have been lost to a "devastating" drought in Ethiopia.
The UN agriculture agency said that the drought had devastated herders' livelihoods as it exhausted pastures and water sources.
It said the current food and nutrition crisis was significantly aggravated by the severe blow to pastoral livelihoods.
"For livestock-dependent families, the animals can literally mean the difference between life and death - especially for children, pregnant and nursing mothers, for whom milk is a crucial source of nutrition.
"With up to two million animals lost so far, FAO is focusing on providing emergency livestock support to the most vulnerable pastoralist communities through animal vaccination and treatment, supplementary feed and water, rehabilitating water points, and supporting fodder and feed production".
FAO stressed that supporting the herders to get back on their feet and prevent further livestock losses was crucial in the Horn of Africa country, where hunger had been on the rise.
"The drought has led to a significant number of animals dying or falling ill, particularly in the southern and south-eastern regions of the country, as other areas recover from previous seasons' El Niño-induced drought," the UN agency warned.
It also said that drought-hit pastoralists were facing reduced milk production, rising malnutrition, and had limited income-earning capacity and severely constrained access to food.
Abdoul Bah, FAO Deputy Representative in Ethiopia, said "Some 8.5 million people - one in 12 people - are now suffering from hunger; of these, 3.3 million people live in Somali Region."It is crucial to provide this support between now and October - when rains are due - to begin the recovery process and prevent further losses of animals. If we don't act now, hunger and malnutrition will only get worse among pastoral communities."
According to Bah, by providing supplementary feed and water for livestock, while simultaneously supporting fodder production, FAO seeks to protect core breeding animals and enable drought-hit families to rebuild their livelihoods.
In addition to FAO-supported destocking and cash-for-work programmes to provide cash for families, he said animal health campaigns would be reinforced to protect animals, particularly before the rain sets in - when they are at their weakest and more susceptible to parasites or infectious diseases.
Bah said FAO urgently required $20 million between August and December to come to the aid of Ethiopia's farmers and herders.
"FAO has already assisted almost 500,000 drought-hit people in 2017 through a mix of livestock feed provision, de-stocking and animal health interventions," he said. .
The support was courtesy of the Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund, Switzerland, Spain and Sweden through FAO's Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund, as well as FAO's own Early Warning Early Action fund and Technical Cooperation Programme.
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The Droughts, Floods and intense altering of our weather (opposite the lies of global infinite warming) is caused by the cyclical events of our Sun.
Research the matter. Youtube Adapt 2030 and Suspicious 0bservers for help.
The problem is people like our Alan here and others see it as malicious, a weapon against us all or poison to depopulate. War? No. War is the racket in which we see on ground level, Geoengineering is the Elites desperate attempt to keep the Green belts growing food and and the status quo as it is.
However, Nothing, has nor ever will stop the power of our Sun.
I see the focus to deflect attention and sow BS about the chemtrail program, I bet many see and hear it too.
The fact this was done in the dark and for so long is telling us it's a dangerous sort of program, not ignoring this danger is a very important task for the survivor set to think about.
Much has been said to hide the whole program, much was paid into defense of these claims, Many are also paid to sow dis info about the war to control your weather. This person above is going to try to claim the whole thing is a good thing to combat bad old mankind and his excesses of consumption, That's all crap, a fairy tale..The effects a moron could discern being seen from all over the world are most definitely not normal. Normal is a thing long ago lost to military intent to gain control of weather and weaponize it.
There is not one path to keeping these programs from being well known, Nothing to sheild the players of this warfare from the wrath of those forced through the recovery stage of this event in history. The term 'you aint seen nothing yet' is so obvious. .
"effects a moron could discern"
Well honestly, those effects (drought and famine?) have historically come about because of the eternal problems of climate change and scarcity. Seeing an article about hunger and saying it must be chemtrails seems like a non sequitur.
I don't want to sound Scully, Scullys annoy me. But maybe there are perfectly reasonable explanations I'm not able to provide to you. Sometimes I go on a small plane for a fun ride. Do they log those in flight trackers? I don't know.
"I'd also like to know why some planes leave contrails and other chemtrails"
Do they?
"I'd also like to know why some planes loop in the sky and leave persistent trails, also why there are short bursts of trail"
Sounds like something about the way they fly and release water vapor. Switching between engines? I'm no pilot.
For years now the tactic is to claim these chemicals are normal water vapor or ice crystals, that is not true.
The tactic of pointing to history of weather disasters and drawing corollaries of effect are a common one too, Forcing s are a well documented process as is the death toll from much of them throughout history. Claims of natural occurrences in the face of the constant barrage we all can see from MANMADE sources is a very telling indicator of those claims.
Thirty years the war has raged over our heads whist the many snooze through life in total oblivion of the serious battle going on over their head. Man is nowhere near in control of this weapon and the freak show weather action is proof of the danger, this is not the first time a drought has killed on vast scales but it is at this point not the first time that man made chemical warfare has done this so we have a record or president to compare the real from the phony in claims.
Yes, some planes leave different trails. I spoke to a chap a while back who said that KLM have the cleanest engines...that was his explanation for the contrail coming from one, and the chemtrail coming from the other...in which case, time they all cleaned up their engines?
Most serious work and tonnage of compounds are sown by non commercial aircraft mostly not shown on any internet trackers. Those aircraft operate a many of the same altitudes as most normal flights. The usage of normal planes and operational areas is the cover they use to great effect, Sowing confusion is a key part of these operations going on in plain sight over the entire population..
A 777 will haul 315,000 pounds of fuel and can haul about 15 tons.payload or about 1/10 of the fuel load, the added aerosol's are from the cargo portion of the 777 load out, not from the fuel, Most close up video of these trail dispensing aircraft show the effect is not directly from the engines but from other locations away from the engines blast.
The array of chemicals and the many different dispersal methods needed also sow confusion about the whole thing.
This sort of warfare is dependent on vast networked computer systems to model the whole process for transposition onto the real deal biosphere everyone breaths and eats.
I have seen historical records in foretell of doing this sort of devil work.... all i can really tell about all of it is.... Payback is a bitch..
Much is a danger without a keen awareness of the actual dangers we all face. This head in sand verbal dung we all must contend will not protect your pitfall riddled path ahead.... Fukushima has changed the process at the top level and i think most are going to question the whole played for narative to bolster their grip. That podium thumping twit Rumsfeld was on to something about unknown unknown's.
In the search to the root of these sorts of pronouncements one tires of seeing the devil worship so obvious in it all. A survivor of this will get it.
Forest fire or it's big brother we are more apt to see Wilde Fire are a new sort of danger on a few fronts, On a radiological battle ground the harshly nasty stuff blown out of the 3 reactors is ever reburned into the air a forest fire smoke, the second front on our battle area is the aluminum contamination in the trees that are burning also being put into the air, on one hand the the AL oxides cause the tree it resides to become 15%-25% more flammable as they sit and dry out, then the oxide gets a multi headed fusion of the leaf,needle,bark and wood path's of the grown in contamination, that second and later generations of reburning the same contamination only results in it's spread.
All the old ideas have a new skill set to understand, Goofy political talk and ideals need not participate. Mess this path up and the world can become a very nasty place...Very quickly.