Drought and food insecurity
b'
Millions of people are going hungry due to severe droughts in the Sahel and in East Africa. The Inside Geneva podcast looks at how the international community should help, now and in the future.
Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by climate and humanitarian experts.
\\u201cTwo boys, twins, they\\u2019re one year old. They\\u2019re severely malnourished, the children and the mother. And she walked 160 kilometres to reach an area where there is some food distribution,\\u201d says Rania Dagash, deputy regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa at UNICEF.
Four consecutive rainy seasons have failed in the Horn of Africa. Climate experts say the next one could fail too.
\\u201cWe have observed decreases in rainfall over the last few years. We see a decreasing amount of rainfall from 2 to 7% per decade,\\u201d says Bob Stefanski, chief of the Agricultural Meteorology Division at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The war in Ukraine has disrupted supply chains and sent the prices of food commodities up. Millions on the African continent, which relies heavily on imports, are on the brink of famine.
\\u201cCould we imagine countries and regions actually fighting over access to water as water becomes more and more precious?\\u201d asks analyst Daniel Warner.
Get in touch!
- Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.ch
- Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en
Thank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review.
'