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2021-11-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

How climate change is leading to a rise in violence in the Sahel

[Aljazeera] The UN estimates 80 percent of the Sahel’s rain-fed farmland is affected by degradation due to erratic rainfall.

More than 1.3 million people have been plunged into extreme poverty in the Sahel, as the Belt of Africa experiences its deepest recession since independence due to COVID-19.

Long before the pandemic, the Western Sahel was being reshaped by climate change. Farmers and herders have been clashing over fertile land and, lacking opportunities, many young people have been recruited to violent groups. Ornella Moderan, the head of the Sahel programme at the Institute for Security Studies, explains why.

And Fairtrade Foundation CEO Michael Gidney talks to Al Jazeera about the effect climate change is having on the 1.8 million farmers his non-profit organisation works with.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-13 06:03|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 But, but, but what led to the millennium of regional conflicts prior to the Weather Wars ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-13 06:11|| 2021-11-13 06:11|| Front Page Top

#2 My guess is that the usual Malthusian forces are at work. Populations grow beyond what the soil and water resources will support. Famine and war ensue.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-11-13 11:52|| 2021-11-13 11:52|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Exactly. If you had the resources and logistics to feed everyone currently alive, in 10 years you'd have famine and war

Posted by Frank G 2021-11-13 12:02|| 2021-11-13 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 We have arrived at one cause fits all.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-11-13 13:26|| 2021-11-13 13:26|| Front Page Top

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