Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Somalia was already at the bottom of the Global Hunger Index, and the world's poorest country. There's been a disastrous combination of successive failed rain seasons, political instability, regional conflicts, the Covid pandemic, and the effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There've also been constraints on trade and humanitarian access. Obviously climate change will continue to cause and exacerbate problems globally, and this area is getting hit paticularly badly.
There's already a thread on the civil war in Ethiopia, there's a climate change forum, and discussion of wider-reaching effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but I think because of the combination of causes for the worsening famine, it needed its own thread.
In Africa, Conflict and Climate Super-Charge the Forces Behind Famine and Food Insecurity - Inside Climate News
There's already a thread on the civil war in Ethiopia, there's a climate change forum, and discussion of wider-reaching effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but I think because of the combination of causes for the worsening famine, it needed its own thread.
In Africa, Conflict and Climate Super-Charge the Forces Behind Famine and Food Insecurity - Inside Climate News
