AFRIKA: masalah kebuluran kat afrika timur!!

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17 juta penduduk kelaparan di Afrika Timur
PBB beri amaran keadaan bakal buruk jika tiada sumbangan

NEW YORK: Hampir 17 juta penduduk di wilayah sekitar Afrika Timur memerlukan makanan dengan segera dan ia meningkat daripada sembilan juta pada awal tahun ini.

"Masalah itu disebabkan kemarau, kenaikan harga makanan dan konflik yang berlanjutan di rantau berkenaan," kata Ketua Agensi Bantuan Kemanusiaan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB), John Holmes.

Menurutnya, krisis kemanusiaan itu bagaimanapun belum mencapai tahap kebuluran tetapi kemungkinan itu boleh berlaku jika negara penderma tidak menyediakan peruntukan AS$716 juta (RM2.4 bilion) dengan segera.

"Wilayah itu akan mengalami keadaan kebuluran seperti pada tahun 1980-an dan 1990-an. Secara keseluruhan, status makanan di Afrika Timur iaitu Habsyah, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, sebahagian utara Kenya dan Uganda, semakin serius berbanding sebelumnya kerana gabungan masalah kemarau, kenaikan harga makanan dan konflik di sebahagian tempat.

"Kami menganggarkan terdapat hampir 17 juta penduduk di rantau itu yang amat memerlukan makanan dengan segera atau bantuan kemanusiaan lain termasuk tiga juta kanak-kanak. Angka itu akan meningkat kerana kemarau semakin teruk dan musim kelapangan berterusan," katanya pada sidang media.

Awal tahun ini, PBB menganggarkan sembilan juta penduduk di Tanduk Afrika amat memerlukan makanan.

Holmes berkata, keadaan semakin buruk kerana rantau itu mengalami 'kesan paling teruk' kenaikan harga makanan, kemarau yang masuk tahun ketiga, dan konflik di Somalia, Habsyah dan beberapa tempat lain.

"Masih belum terlewat untuk mengelakkan bencana ini tetapi kita amat memerlukan bantuan sekarang. Jika tidak keadaan akan menjadi bertambah buruk berbanding hari ini," katanya.

Holmes berkata, beliau menulis surat kepada menteri negara penderma untuk membuat 'rayuan' bagi mendapatkan bantuan segera. PBB menganggarkan ia memerlukan AS$1.4 bilion (RM4.76 bilion) untuk membantu 17 juta penduduk yang memerlukan sehingga akhir tahun ini - tetapi cuma memperoleh AS$684 juta (RM2.3 bilion). Itu bermakna ia terdesak memerlukan AS$716 juta (RM2.4 bilion) untuk meliputi keperluan dari Oktober hingga Disember, katanya.

"Kami memerlukan sumber tambahan dengan segera jika ingin mengelakkan ia kembali kepada keadaan kebuluran. Keadaan amat kritikal," katanya. - AP






masalah kebuluran ni  mmg dah lama kalu tak silap aku... lebih2 laei kat afrika ni... ethiopia, sudan, ghana... sumer tu ler..  dah ler majorit negara kat sana LEDC... dengan tarap kemiskinan yg tinggi.. lagi tak cukup makanan... tarak ayaq bersih.....  sian bila tengok ada negara cam nih... pastu ada worang2 kayork  yg senang2 bazir makanan... hidup senang lenang...   aku bajet depa ni kalu bagi hantaq sebulan sekali makanan kat worang2 miskin ni... tarak jejas apa2 pung harta depa...

     

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Satu bilion penduduk dunia kelaparan

NAIROBI: Ibu bapa kebanyakan negara miskin di Afrika terpaksa mengehadkan perbelanjaan sekolah, pakaian dan penjagaan kesihatan asas semata-mata untuk memastikan anak mereka mendapat makan sekurang-kurangnya sekali sehari.

Tetapi, langkah itu masih belum mencukupi untuk menjamin anak mereka makan sekali sehari, menurut kajian, semalam.

Malah, seramai satu bilion penduduk dunia dilaporkan dalam keadaan berlapar. Laporan terbaru berita menyatakan, bilangan itu akan meningkat jika kerajaan tidak berbelanja lebih untuk pertanian.


Berdasarkan laporan agensi makanan PBB, Program Makanan Dunia (WFP), sebanyak 30 negara kini memerlukan bantuan kecemasan, 20 daripadanya di Afrika.

Keadaan berkenaan berterusan walaupun pemimpin dunia diberi sasaran sembilan tahun lalu untuk mengurangkan bilangan penduduk yang kelaparan sehingga separuh menjelang 2015.

“Ia sebenarnya satu darurat yang menggesa tindakan dari negara maju dan negara membangun,” kata Otive Igbuzor, ketua kempen antarabangsa bagi Action Aid International.
“Kita tahu, seorang kanak-kanak mati setiap enam saat akibat kurang zat,” katanya. Kenaikan harga makanan menambahkan kesukaran terutama di negara terdesak kerana kemiskinan menyebabkan penduduk hanya mampu makan sekali sehari.

Di Somalia, negara yang berhadapan dengan keganasan dan keadaan huru hara hampir dua dekad, perbelanjaan bulanan bagi makanan dan keperluan asas lain bagi sebuah keluarga enam orang meningkat sebanyak 85 peratus sejak dua tahun lalu, kata Grainne Moloney dari Unit Analisis Zat dan Keselamatan Makanan Somalia.

Secara purata, sebuah keluarga berbelanja AS$171 (RM598) pada September tahun ini berbanding AS$92 (RM322) bagi membeli makanan dan keperluan lain yang sama pada Mac 2007, kata Moloney, pakar pemakanan bagi Afrika. - AP

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aku sgt pelik... africa ni dari dulu kini dan maybe selamenyer miskin papa kedana kotor kelparan daif

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                            WHY IS AFRICA STILL POOR?
"Africa was poor, Africa is poor and Africa will continue to be poor if we the Africans are not ready to change Africa. Africa will remain poor if Africans are not ready to make Africa rich. There is poverty in Africa and there is hunger everywhere on the continent of Africa. HIV/AIDs continues to kill Africans in record numbers. Africa is poor and there is no doubt Africa is poor. The question is not why Africa is poor but may be how we can make Africa rich. What we can do as individuals or groups to help change Africa.
There is poverty in Africa but Africa has almost all it takes to be the richest continent on earth. The major problem facing Africa today is corruption and poor leadership.  There are greedy people in Africa including our leaders who don't care about their poor mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters. Some people are too greedy and that is why Africa remains poor. People are killing their own brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers just to make money. People didn't care about yesterday and people don't even care about tomorrow. All they care about is money and money and that is why Africa remains poor. All African leaders I know are corrupt in one way or the other. They come as saints and leave as devils.. An African president of a country is a president for a few selected people. An African president is a president for only the educated and a president for only those in the higher class. An African president sees no poverty. An African president sees no hunger. An African president sees no HIV. An African president knows no orphan. An African president shows no mercy. An African presidents sees only money and money and nothing but money.. Not just the African president but the African prime minister, the African governor, the African Doctor,  the African Judge, the African lawyer, the African King, and even the African Pastor. And that is why Africa is still poor and that is why Africa continues to wallow in poverty..."

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Tuesday November 17, 2009Going hungryBy HILARY CHIEW
Climate change will affect farm yields. We have to act now to avoid possible food shortages.

CLIMATE refugees – those fleeing rising sea levels or displaced by weather disasters, and farmers facing crop failures due to climate change-induced events –are predicted to reach 200 million by 2050.

Scientists say even small local temperature increases will decrease yields especially in tropical and seasonal dry areas.
Agriculture is one human activity that is both contributor and victim of global warming. Use of chemical fertiliser and land conversion release planet-heating greenhouse gases. Industrial agricultural emissions through increased application of nitrogen dioxide is projected to increase from 10% to 65% by 2030.

But melting glaciers, droughts, floods and erratic rainfall are affecting farm outputs in many developing countries, thus increasing the risk of hunger for the global population.

Speaking at the recent Asia Pacific Conference On Confronting The Food Crisis And Climate Change organised by the Pesticide Action Network-Asia Pacific, sustainable agriculture researcher Lim Li Ching of Third World Network said smallholders, subsistence farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk will suffer complex and localised impacts of climate change.


Farmers winnow paddy in Sulawesi, Indonesia. As the climate changes, farm yields will be affected.


“Freshwater availability in central, south, east and south-east Asia, particularly in large river basins, is projected to decrease and this could adversely affect more than a billion people by 2050,” she warned.

Herman Kumara of the Sri Lanka National Fisheries Solidarity Movement noted that the 0.6°C increase in temperature in the Himalaya over the last 30 years would have serious repercussion on agricultural land in Asia. He said the Himalayan-Hindu Kush and the Tibetan Plateau glaciers represent the largest body of ice on the planet outside the polar region, and together fed seven major rivers – the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Yangtze, Yellow, Irrawaddy and Mekong. These basins are home to 1.3 billion people from Pakistan to Indo-China and parts of India and China.

He said coastal areas, especially heavily populated deltas in south, east and south-east Asia would be at greatest risk from increased flooding.

“Increased ocean temperature would be especially detrimental to sensitive marine organisms such as corals which may bleach, resulting in overall reef degradation and collapse of fisheries.

“Millions of people in developing countries derive their livelihoods from fishing. Worldwide, marine and freshwater fisheries generate over US$130bil (RM455bil) annually while around 2.6 billion people get their protein from seafood. This is as much a development and economic issue as it is an environmental one,” he pointed out.

Feeling the effects

The two-day conference that brought together farmers and fisherfolk groups in the region revealed that climate change is already being experienced by subsistence farmers. In Uttarakand, a northern Indian state in the Himalaya, farmers can no longer predict the monsoon and that has caused poor harvest.

Closer to home, the natives of Sarawak are also experiencing unpredictable rainfall. Sarawak Dayak Iban Association secretary-general Nicholas Mujah said in his village in the Samarahan division, east of Kuching, farmers were delaying sowing rice seeds to as late as October when it was previously carried out in August.

He said while farmers like his parents inherited the traditional knowledge of observing the moon to determine the right time to clear the land, burn the soil and sow seeds to ensure a bountiful harvest, inexperienced farmers who did not observe the subtle changes failed to adapt and suffered crop failure.

He suspected that the food shortage crisis in Ulu Belaga in central Sarawak in August was linked to climate change. He said the reported successive crop failures needed to be investigated further.

Lim believes a radical overhaul of agricultural policies and practices is needed.


Food security: Afghan women harvesting tomatoes in the outskirts of Kabul. Farm crops were damaged by a spell of cold weather.

She said an assessment by the Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) concluded that the future of agriculture laid in diverse, agro-ecologically based farming.

“Ecological agriculture promotes adaptation to climate change by harnessing farmers’ skills and knowledge in producing on-farm fertiliser and breeding locally adapted seeds. A high degree of crop diversity will avert risks from droughts and diseases,” said Lim.

While many governments are doubtful over whether organic farming is the way forward, studies show that organic yields are comparable to that from conventional farming in developed countries.

A review of 286 projects in 57 countries reported that average yields increased by 79% for small farmers growing cereals and roots.

To mainstream ecological agriculture that is based on appropriate technologies and farmers’ needs, Lim said support was needed from governments and international agencies to redirect investment, research, training and policy.

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