El Niño threat puts SA’s water and food security at risk
Healthy grasslands perform several critical ecosystem services, including but not limited to increasing rainfall infiltration, recharging groundwater, reducing soil erosion, moderating flood peaks, sustaining dry-season river flows, improving water quality and increasing resilience during drought.
The onset of a strong El Niño event during the second half of this year may hold dire consequences for conservation, agriculture and water security in South Africa.
Protecting grasslands and strategic water catchments could help South Africa withstand the pressures of a prolonged dry period.
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