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Food insecurity intensifies in Eastern Africa due to climate shocks, WFP reveals
UN says Africa faces unprecedented food crisis, with 3 in 4 people unable to afford a healthy diet
The hit on world grain supplies from Russia’s war in Ukraine compounds the ills of African conflicts, climate change and the aftereffects of the Covid-19 pandemic
The climate crisis is the second biggest driver of hunger in the world, undermining people's ability to feed themselves and their families through the destruction of lives, crops, and livelihoods
Disasters cause $3.8T in crop losses
El Aguacate, with a population of about 500 and barely accessible by road, sits within Central America’s Dry Corridor, a region that has suffered a series of debilitating droughts and storms over the past decade.
Such weather extremes are linked to climate change and hit subsistence farmers hard in the Dry Corridor, an already-difficult region for agriculture, according to the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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