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TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature

Source: Inter Press Service Environment - Posted: March 10, 2010 09:44
DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) - Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don't have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.
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Chavez trusts God and nature in power crisis

Source: Reuters Environment - Posted: March 10, 2010 09:18
CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez is confident that God and nature will pull Venezuela out of a power crisis battering both the economy and his popularity.
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Drought sends farmers rushing to rescue rice - Vietnam Net

Source: Climate Change News Digest - Posted: March 9, 2010 15:43
VietNamNet Bridge - Unusually hot, dry weather has put thousands of hectares of rice in the country's central and Mekong Delta regions at risk of a poor harvest. Residents and local leaders are now undertaking drastic measures to ensure the winter-spring crop does not go to waste.
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