Back to
13 Sep 2022 | SERVIR-HKH

Pakistan floods threaten food security as critical crops destroyed

0 mins Read

70% Complete

Agricultural land inundated by flooding is set to have long-term humanitarian and economic impacts in Pakistan. Billions of dollars worth of rice, sugar and wheat have already been lost.

The threat from melting glaciers

ON the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures ...

13 Sep 2022 SERVIR-HKH
Pakistan floods threaten food security, destroy key crops

Floods hit dozens of areas Pakistan Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab. Large tracts of farmland were destroyed in the provinces. If thousands of ...

13 Oct 2022 SERVIR-HKH
Flood Woes Continue in Pakistan

In early September 2022, floods in Pakistan were the worst in a decade. Monsoon rains had pummeled the region for ...

14 Sep 2022 SERVIR-HKH
Monsoon floods devastate commercial crops, cause loss of $1.7 bln in Sindh

A recent by the International Centre for Integrated Mountains Development (ICIMOD) and Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) has revealed that ...

15 Mar 2022 SERVIR-HKH
Efforts underway to launch geospatial platform for monitoring of Pakistan’s largest afforestation programme

A two-day national workshop on “Establishing a geospatial platform for Pakistan's Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme and ecosystem restoration efforts” ...

7 May 2021 SERVIR-HKH
ICIMOD Invites Applications From Women In Pakistan For Training On Earth Observation, GIT

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), an intergovernmental knowledge and learning center in eight regional members countries of ...

28 Jun 2022 SERVIR-HKH
In May 2022, NASA data overwhelmed forecasts in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has a long history of deadly and costly storms. Among the most worrisome are the kalbaishakhi , small but powerful ...