drought in Ethiopia 2015

Question 1

-how the government responded

Answer 1

-overseas governments have given aid, USA gave around US$130 Million in food aid in 2015.

Question 2

-how organisations responded

Answer 2

• Oxfam and UNICEF are helping people to get water supplies.

- education charities are trying to help people get jobs in urban areas.

Question 3

-how individuals responded

Answer 3

-large charity events like Live Aid have helped raise awareness and money.

Question 4

-impacts on people

Answer 4

• death of livestock caused a food crisis.
• people eat less, become weak from malnutrition and more vulnerable to disease.
• girls have to walk further to get water, so cannot go to school.

Question 5

-impacts on ecosystems

Answer 5

• increase in disease in wild animals, because of reduced food and water supplies.
• migration of wildlife.
• extinction of some species e.g Grevy zebras.

Question 6

-causes

Answer 6

• short rainy season began to get shorter, and the long rainy season got later and less predictable.
• the 2015 drought was the worst in 30 years.