More consolidated efforts to combat the threat of climate change
and counter its ripple effects on global food security are
needed amid an intensifying global drought and increasing
temperatures worldwide, the United Nations declared during the
week. “Climate change is projected to increase the frequency,
intensity, and duration of droughts, with impacts on many
sectors, in particular food, water, and energy,” said World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary-General Michel
Jarraud in a press release. “We need to move away from a
piecemeal, crisis-driven approach and develop integrated risk-
based national drought policies,” he added. According to the
news release, the WMO and the UN Convention to Combat
Desertification (UNCCD), along with other UN agencies, are
intensifying efforts to establish a more coordinated and
proactive strategy for managing drought risk to fill existing
policy vacuums in countries around the world. As a result, a
High Level Meeting on National Drought Policy has been scheduled
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