food security – Aquarius-Systems https://aquarius-systems.com Surface Water Management Equipment Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:27:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://aquarius-systems.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-favicon-32x32.png food security – Aquarius-Systems https://aquarius-systems.com 32 32 Global Drought Impacts Are Escalating From Farms to Forests https://aquarius-systems.com/drought-disasters-around-the-world/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 02:07:30 +0000 https://aquariussystems.wordpress.com/?p=634 Across the country and around the globe, the effects of drought are everywhere.  Google the word “drought” and the news stories are endless; some with severe consequences.

In California, over 100 million trees have died due to the drought.  In Tennessee the drought is posing a huge threat to the cattle industry.  Pastures have dried up and farmers have resorted to feeding the cattle hay which is normally saved for the winter months.  Similar stories are reported out of Georgia as well.

Dead pine trees

Wildfires have ravaged over 54,000 acres of forest, protected areas and farmland in parts of Peru.  Peru is experiencing the regions worst drought in at least half a century.  Wildfires have burned over 100,000 acres of land across seven southern U.S. states leading to mass evacuations.

landscape severely affected by droughtAs devastating as those issues are; other countries are faring much worse.  The severe drought in Madagascar has left 330,000 people on the brink of famine.

As Bolivia faces its worst drought in at least 25 years, the government has been forced to declare a state of emergency.  It is estimated that the drought has affected 125,000 families and threatened 716,605 acres of agricultural land and 360,000 head of cattle.

]]> How Drought, Policy, and Economics Can Push Nations Toward Conflict https://aquarius-systems.com/does-climate-change-contribute-to-violence-and-war/ Fri, 11 Dec 2015 01:50:32 +0000 https://aquariussystems.wordpress.com/?p=565 The line from drought to war is not nearly as straightforward, though on the surface it doesn’t seem to involve any leaps of faith. It makes sense that a severe drought would lead to massive crop failure, and that in a country heavily dependent on agriculture the results would be disastrous.

Climate change leads to extreme weather such as drought.

The drought lasted several years and forced hundreds of thousands of poor farmers off their lands and into cities that were already overcrowded by refugees (1 million or so, by most accounts) from the war in neighboring Iraq.

However, the drought alone may not have been what forced the farmers from their land. The cancellation of diesel and fertilizer subsidies also had a crippling effect on the farmers. Political, economic and technological forces at work in the modern world also play a major role in economical collapse.

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