Food insecurity due to climate change

Many countries across Africa and globally, are facing a food crisis exacerbated by civil war and the affects of climate change.

In a new report released earlier this week, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) said many of the countries on highest alert for food insecurity are on the African continent, such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan.

The organisations also said that a likely El Nino climatic phenomenon is raising fears of climate extremes in vulnerable countries, leading to an impact on agricultural practices and resources.

El Nino is the large-scale warming of surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.

The “expected shift in climate patterns will have significant implications for several hotspots”, the report warned.

Those include “consecutive extreme climatic events hitting areas of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa”.

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