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KAMPALA, Uganda<\/strong><\/p>\n A new weather pattern threatens to worsen food insecurity in Uganda\u2019s northeastern Karamoja region, according to a report.<\/p>\n The Ugandan government and the World Food Programme (WFP) released a study on Monday, which shows that the average monthly rainfall in the region has increased by two months over the last 35 years, thus leading to severe flooding and drought.<\/p>\n Siddharth Krishnaswamy, the head of WFP Food Security Analysis in Uganda, said: \u201cThis unpredictability was found to undermine agricultural production, thereby threatening to aggravate food insecurity in Karamoja.\u201d<\/p>\n As a result, WFP states that the rising temperatures threaten the frequency, intensity and duration of heat waves in the region, therefore reducing availability of water for crops and animals.<\/p>\n Last month, Minister for Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru said 38 deaths had been recorded in less than four months in Karamoja.<\/p>\n According to the report, Uganda is expected to spend around $406 million until 2020 in order to adapt to climate change.<\/p>\n \u201cThe cost of inaction on the other hand is 20 times greater and estimated at between $3.1 billion and $5.9 billion per year by 2025,\u201d read the report.<\/p>\n \nKaramoja comprises of seven districts with a population of a little over 1 million, of which nearly half are supported by WFP. It is the most impoverished region in the East African country with the weakest development indicators.<\/p>\n El Khidir Daloum the WFP country director said: \u201cIf we try to address the root causes of the situation, then climate change cannot be ignored at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n The government has acknowledged that the region suffers from chronic food insecurity, which severely affects 12 percent of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" aa.com Halima Athumani KAMPALA, Uganda A new weather pattern threatens to worsen food insecurity in Uganda\u2019s northeastern Karamoja region, according to a report. The Ugandan government and the World Food Programme (WFP) released a study on Monday, which shows that the average monthly rainfall in the region has increased by two months over the last 35 years, thus leading to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}