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Follow-up - Iraq Press -8 March / March: experts uncover the United Nations and specialize in the science of climate, drought witnessed in the Middle East threatens to rising global food prices and the depletion of local crops, as pointed out that Iraq is on the verge of a severe drought in 2017
According to excerpts from the study, which will publish its findings soon to the drought in Iraq will continue and will increase the intensity in the period from 2017 until 2026, thereby increasing the adoption of one of the largest importers of grain in the world on foreign food imports.
Said Mohammed Kholi expert natural resources in the institution 'Planing' International Advisory specializing in geological studies in the Middle East and Africa, said the drought intensifies in parts of the eastern Mediterranean and Iraq, while beating strongly Syria again after a couple of droughts in recent decades.
From his part, the Minister of Water and Irrigation of Jordan Hazem Nasser, said that the levels of rainfall are the worst since the start of the registration process sixty years ago.
Jordanian officials pointed out that even after a strong sudden blizzard that swept through the region in mid-December / December last, Jordan dams were filled by only 42%, which means a decrease of 80% compared to last year.
Jordan is one of the ten countries facing the worst water shortage in the world.
On the other hand, experts say that Israel is the only country that is not facing a severe water problems in the region, thanks to long-term investments in desalination plants and technologies in the management of water resources.
He said Mohammed Hussein, a specialist in environmental economics at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that the region has seen in the last five years the driest did not know has ever seen in the past hundred years.
Drought has hit about two-thirds of arable land in each of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian territories and Iraq.
As the impact of the drought on grain crops in areas of Syria and to a lesser extent in Iraq.
Some of the countries affected by the large buyers of grain from the world market, but experts estimate that these countries to resort to foreign markets to meet the need for increasingly due to lack of crops, which will push global food prices to rise.
The index shows the rain that the region has not experienced a shortage of rainfall in this way since 1970 at least, that's according to preliminary results of a joint technical for drought risk management carried out by several agencies of the United Nations, including the 'FAO', and Program Development, and the Organization for Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The experts in the science of climate and officials that the authorities responsible for water and agriculture as well as the United Nations specialized agencies started to prepare plans for a formal announcement on the status of drought in the Middle East extends even as far south as Morocco and Yemen. Ended (1)
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According to excerpts from the study, which will publish its findings soon to the drought in Iraq will continue and will increase the intensity in the period from 2017 until 2026, thereby increasing the adoption of one of the largest importers of grain in the world on foreign food imports.
Said Mohammed Kholi expert natural resources in the institution 'Planing' International Advisory specializing in geological studies in the Middle East and Africa, said the drought intensifies in parts of the eastern Mediterranean and Iraq, while beating strongly Syria again after a couple of droughts in recent decades.
From his part, the Minister of Water and Irrigation of Jordan Hazem Nasser, said that the levels of rainfall are the worst since the start of the registration process sixty years ago.
Jordanian officials pointed out that even after a strong sudden blizzard that swept through the region in mid-December / December last, Jordan dams were filled by only 42%, which means a decrease of 80% compared to last year.
Jordan is one of the ten countries facing the worst water shortage in the world.
On the other hand, experts say that Israel is the only country that is not facing a severe water problems in the region, thanks to long-term investments in desalination plants and technologies in the management of water resources.
He said Mohammed Hussein, a specialist in environmental economics at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that the region has seen in the last five years the driest did not know has ever seen in the past hundred years.
Drought has hit about two-thirds of arable land in each of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian territories and Iraq.
As the impact of the drought on grain crops in areas of Syria and to a lesser extent in Iraq.
Some of the countries affected by the large buyers of grain from the world market, but experts estimate that these countries to resort to foreign markets to meet the need for increasingly due to lack of crops, which will push global food prices to rise.
The index shows the rain that the region has not experienced a shortage of rainfall in this way since 1970 at least, that's according to preliminary results of a joint technical for drought risk management carried out by several agencies of the United Nations, including the 'FAO', and Program Development, and the Organization for Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The experts in the science of climate and officials that the authorities responsible for water and agriculture as well as the United Nations specialized agencies started to prepare plans for a formal announcement on the status of drought in the Middle East extends even as far south as Morocco and Yemen. Ended (1)
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