{"id":41384,"date":"2026-06-16T18:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-dutch-red-cross-warns-that-el-nino-threatens-food-security-and-water-supplies-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:47:07","slug":"the-dutch-red-cross-warns-that-el-nino-threatens-food-security-and-water-supplies-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-dutch-red-cross-warns-that-el-nino-threatens-food-security-and-water-supplies-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dutch Red Cross warns that El Nino threatens food security and water supplies around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NOAA-El-Nino-active-phase.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The Dutch Red Cross raised the alarm that extreme weather associated with the approaching El Nino phenomenon could threaten food security and cause water shortages around the world, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Extreme weather always hits the people who have the least the most. &#8230; They will soon be hit three times harder by droughts, floods or extreme heat. This only increases the risk of food shortages and diseases,&#8221; said Harm Goossens, director of Dutch Red Cross, in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>Goossens noted that the drought could lead to crop failure and food price increases, while also causing severe food insecurity in Sudan, South Sudan and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By acting earlier, we prevent a lot of suffering and ultimately, aid is cheaper and more effective,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Goossens stressed the need for act in time to prevent extreme weather from turning into a major humanitarian disaster. &#8220;The biggest benefit is in the preparation,&#8221; Goossens added.<\/p>\n<p>The World Meteorological Organization recently warned that there is an 80 percent probability of El Nino appearing during the June-August period, while the chance of it continuing at least through November is around or above 90 percent.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch Red Cross raised the alarm that extreme weather associated with the approaching El Nino phenomenon could threaten food security and cause water shortages around the world, reports Anadolu. &#8220;Extreme weather always hits the people who have the least the most. &#8230; They will soon be hit three times harder by droughts, floods or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-41384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41386,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41384\/revisions\/41386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}