The country has been devestated by two decades of conflict and three years of drought. While these are normally marginal agricultural areas, accounting for only about 10 percent of national production, poor harvests seriously increase local food insecurity. Two months on since a massive earthquake hit Pakistan, killing more than 73,000 people, injuring over 100,000 and leaving some three million homeless, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is redoubling its efforts to deliver winterized tents and other shelter materials to survivors as temperatures plummet to below freezing in the mountainous areas of the North West Frontier Provinces (NWFP). The first 175 FAO hand tractors, bought with funds donated by the Kingdom of Belgium, will also be distributed by Peace Winds Japan to the tsunami affected farmers in the Banda Aceh region. As the population on the slopes of Mount Elgon has swelled, more and more trees have been felled to make way for homes and farmland, to provide timber for construction and to produce wood to burn for charcoal to satisfy rising fuel demands. The platform documents the Japanese Red Cross Society's experience since the triple meltdown, which followed a magnitude-9 earthquake on 11 March 2011, along with interviews with relief teams, and doctors and nurses from Red Cross hospitals. People were living in the open air, exposed to the sandy wind blowing around. The Interior Ministry has allocated special budget for flood alleviation and relief operations in flood-wrecked provinces, Interior Minister Air Chief Marshal Kongsak Wanthana was quoted by Thai News Agency as saying on Tuesday while inspecting affected region. There is a slight tilt of the odds favoring below normal precipitation over portions of west central Sudan including the Darfur region, and west central Ethiopia. He said the military hierarchy was aware of the situation and was in the process of putting it in good shape when the explosions occurred. His customs counterpart, who would be aware of a surge of people packing up their belongings and heading south, agreed. The team has already developed and deployed two Monitoring Tools for use by national coordinators and field officers to monitor progress in the implementation of agreed actions including community resistance. The Australia plate thrusts beneath the Sunda plate at the Java trench, south of Java, and is subducted to progressively greater depths beneath Java and north of Java. 8.08 lakh hectares crop area affected. Food and water are in short supply, and the surviving population is remaining outdoors day and night in unseasonably cool and damp weather. Mama Furaha was among the recipients, getting items such as five blankets and four mosquito nets. It was termed a mild el nino and lived up to its billing!. In the central province of Hunan, seven people were killed and three more were feared buried under mud and rocks, Xinhua reported on Thursday. The government is due to install warning towers in Phuket by year's end, with another 32 towers scheduled to be set up along the country's Andaman coast by March. Ten provincial regions have reported deaths after heavy downpours caused floods, hailstones, landslides and other geological disasters, including five deaths in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Severe winds uprooted trees and smashed windows while heavy rains triggered multiple landslides. Therefore, the report mentions two scenarios: (1) a worst-case scenario, with rains tailing off in February, leaving late planted crops to wither; (2) a best-case scenario, with current good rains continuing until crops reach maturity. Further flooding in the town of Srednekolymsk on the Kolyma river and in other regions of the Republic is likely to occur during spring and summer as prolonged frosts have not allowed snow to melt slowly as usual. The Department of Health delivers medicines to the puskesmas once every three months. Whether it is intermediate" shelters in Campbell Bay, or Padauk Tikri and Panchu Tikri in Little Andaman, or Chauldhari in South Andaman, people continue to suffer a violation of their human right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate housing.