Andrew Mambondiyani

1 month ago | ssir.org | Andrew Mambondiyani

Human Rights Mercy Corps leverages satellite data and AI to preemptively send emergency relief to people ahead of natural disasters. To read this article and start a full year of unlimited online access, subscribe now! Subscribe Now Already a subscriber? Login Need to register for your premium online access,which is included with your paid subscription? Register Now Support SSIR’s coverage of cross-sector solutions to global challenges.

1 month ago | foodtank.com | Andrew Mambondiyani

Zimbabwe is in the midst of a crippling El Niño-induced drought—the worst in more than 40 years. It has wiped out most of last year’s rain-fed crops, particularly the now staple crop, maize. With up to 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s population surviving on rural economic activities—mostly rain-fed crop farming—recurring droughts are devastating to the country. The drought has left more than 7 million people without enough food.

2 months ago | moretoherstory.com | Andrew Mambondiyani

This display is part of a years-long nationwide campaign by AHF Zimbabwe, a nonprofit organization working to end child marriage. Yet despite such efforts, the practice of child marriage has new cause for worry: the 2024 El Niño-induced drought, compounded by the knock-on effects of climate change, has ravaged Zimbabwe, leaving over 6 million people food insecure and the government scrambling to acquire up to $2 billion to feed its starving population.

Oct 7, 2024 | strangematters.coop | Andrew Mambondiyani

Millions of its inhabitants have been badly affected. Some farmers have been left with little or no food, and some residents have had their homes and businesses destroyed. Every part of the country has been wrecked by one climate disaster or another. The droughts have annihilated summer food crops, while the cyclones have flattened some parts of coastal cities. Sources of livelihoods in both urban and rural areas have been affected.

Sep 16, 2024 | therevelator.org | Andrew Mambondiyani

A herd of emaciated cows crowd for water at a small dam in the Zimunya area about 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of Zimbabwe’s eastern border city of Mutare. On the other side of the small dam, a group of children excitedly fetch water, mostly for nondrinking or cooking uses. In this part of the country, water became scarce this year as an El Niño-induced drought — the worst in more than 40 years — ravaged the region. The drought has left nearly 10 million people food insecure.