On the second day of our mission to the worst hit flood affected areas of Sindh, we stopped at a location where hundreds of affected people were spread out in the road.
It was found that households that had received loans in the flood affected areas reported more cases of diarrhea in their children than the households in the non-flood affected area.
It comes as Storm Frank caused fresh chaos across the flood affected areas in Scotland and northern England.
Field observations focused on bio-physical characteristics, land degradation, flood affected areas, water resources and vegetation cover and land management practices.
This can be due to unlevelled fields in direct-seeded rainfed or irrigated environments, especially in flood affected areas, when rain falls just after seeding causing poor seedling establishment (Ismail et al. 2009).
The 2010 floods in upper and later on in lower Indus affected more than 18 million people, caused 1985 deaths, and damaged or destroyed 1.7 million houses; and hypothetically increased the influence of extremist organizations in the flood affected areas, though the State and civil society were able to retain political control in the short run (Hasan and Zaidi 2012).
This implies that policy should focus more on addressing the factors that expose people to flood disasters and shape their resilience, rather than focusing on short-term emergency responses which seems to be the norm in much of the flood affected areas in the country.
These imply that policy should focus more on addressing the factors that expose people to flood disasters and shape their resilience, rather than focusing on short-term emergency responses, which seems to be the norm in much of the flood affected areas in Ethiopia.
The main aim of the questionnaire survey was to generate information on impacts and associated problems of sedimentation on the agricultural land and the communities' subsequent adaptations and adoption of agricultural practices within the flood affected areas during the post-disaster phase.
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said he will visit flood affected areas starting Saturday and supervise relief efforts there, according to a statement from his office.
During public addresses in his recent trips to the flood affected areas, Mr. Sharif has also been censured with chants of "Go Nawaz Go!" which sprang during Islamabad protests.
