Global food prices are on the rise again. Drought in the US and heat waves in Russia have put volatility in global food prices back in the spotlight.On the back of this, corn prices topped $7 a...
ActionAid is responding to the emergency in North East India following recent flooding which has affected up to an estimated two million people with 231,000 in relief camps. Most seriously hit is the state of Assam in the Eastern Himalayas, which has been flooded three times this year.
A mother of five children, 39-year-old Long Kimleap is now in her house surrounded by the water. The floods came suddenly on 19th September 2012, in Sentepheap village in the northwest of Cambodia -...
This report examines the impact of climate change on urban communities in six African cities, and looks at how people are coping with and adapting to increasingly frequent and severe episodes of...
Thailand’s floods have swept away the little support that existed for the poorest members of our society. Though the waters continue to decrease and disappear, ActionAid has consistently found that...
Still grief-stricken and tearful, Wattana Chankrajang, told me how he sat holding his dying mother’s hand during her final night. Wattana, aged 52, lived with his brother Viroj and his mother in a...
“Even the flood is gone from the area but there’s nothing left for me” Suthi Chansa, a 56 year-old woman who lives with her 10 years old grandson. Her daughter, mother of a boy is working as a...
Since Indri’s father passed away two years ago, her mother has had to struggle to raise the family alone. Now life is even tougher as the monsoons have destroyed their home and many of the goats they...
With two disabled sons, life was difficult enough for Zainab before the floods left her family homeless. Now she has lost her livestock and her village is completely under water.
“I could not eat this morning. My mother did not cook yet.” – says 6-year old Lima waiting in queue to receive food supplies from ActionAid. She lives in Tala which is still submerged in flood water...
