Afghanistan lider under tilbagevendende naturkatastrofer – oversvømmelser og tørke – og de kunne måske undgås, hvis der blev bygget ordentlige dæmninger og vandforvaltningssystemer.
Kabul, 29. January, 2011 (IRIN): Some farmers could switch from rain-fed wheat crops, which require a lot of water, to other crops, like grapes (druer) or almonds (mandler).
But these kinds of transitions require long-term multi-year plans, inherently at odds with (og vil bestandigt strides med) emergency responses, based on annual appeals for funding.
“Responding to eight droughts in 11 years makes no sense,” Michael Keating, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan, said recently. “There is something going wrong.”
“It is not a complete mystery how some of these problems can be addressed,” Keating told IRIN.
“They should not be addressed by basic emergency humanitarian action.”
And yet, for much of the past decade, humanitarians have been drawn into things like infrastructure and early recovery programmes.
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