Climate Change

The Karamoja region is affected by recurrent climate crisis, characterized by more frequent periods of drought and the elevation of average temperatures. During each dry season, most of the population is directly affected by a prolonged drought.

During the summer 2007, devastating floods have also made the headlines, destroying cultivation and grazing areas...

Extract from an interview in the documentary film Land of Thorns :

...The people living in the arid, semi-arid areas are more impacted by climate change than the people who are on the agricultural areas. Because they receive very little rainfall and the drought continues for a long time, and when the rains come, it’s not enough. High temperatures will completely evaporate the little rainfall that is already there, so the livestock may not get enough water... There will also not be enough water for the plants to grow, for the pastures to grow. So the people who are in the arid, semi-arid areas, are impacted much more than those in the agricultural areas.

Dr. Christopher Luder, University of Nairobi, department of meteorology; working with the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)