Tagged with drought

Climate change and flooding

Posted 15 January 2021

Find out about climate change flooding: how floods can be caused by climate change and ActionAid's work supporting communities affected by flooding.

Climate change

Posted 21 August 2020

Find out about climate change, what it is, how it affects women and girls, our charity work taking action on climate change.

Tanzania is severely impacted by the effects of climate change. . Photo: Marta Lombardelli/ActionAid

Drought

Posted 16 January 2020

Find out about drought - what it is, what causes it and what ActionAid are doing to help people affected by drought.

A woman standing with her back to the camera, looking out to the sea

Saumu (name changed), a 24-year-old mother from Tanzania, speaks about the impact of losing her farmland to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline and how women in her community are confronting rising gender-based violence in the aftermath. . Photo: Neema Irene Ngelime/ ActionAid

Climate change and gender

Posted 9 September 2019

Find out the relationship between climate change and gender, and how women and girls are affected most acutely by climate change.

Women seaweed harvesters in Kilwa Masoko, Tanzania highlighting how communities least responsible for climate change are organizing to defend their rights and livelihoods as climate impacts intensify. Photo: Marta Lombardelli/ActionAid

Climate change and poverty

Posted 9 September 2019

Find out the relationship between climate change and poverty, and the effects of climate change on the poorest communities in the world.

Saafi is currently living in the Giro-Sumo IDP camp in Somaliland with her young daughter

Food crisis in East Africa 2017-2026

Posted 10 March 2017

Facts and figures about the food crisis in East Africa. Find out what is happening in East Africa right now, and how ActionAid is working to avert hunger and famine in East Africa.