The toll of climate-fueled disasters in the Global South is a focal point at COP27 as developing nations push for loss and damage financing.
found that flood events experienced in some African nations between 2009 and 2020 impacted food security for roughly 5.6 million people across the continent.At least 12% of the food insecure populations analyzed in more than a dozen nations in West, East and South Africa experienced immediate and/or lasting impacts following a flood.
Parts of South Sudan, Malawi and Nigeria were among the areas in the African continent most at risk of flood events impacting food security.found that in some cases they actually stabilized food security for an area. The reasons for this vary, but may include climate-resilient infrastructure and disaster response that minimized the impacts on food access, according to Sonali McDermid, an associate professor of environmental studies at New York University who co-authored the study.
"We need to split our efforts and our resources between looking at mitigation, which is really falling on industrialized, wealthy countries, and adaptation, which is something that really needs to be better resourced across the Global South," McDermid tells Axios.Emtithal Mahmoud, a goodwill ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency and former Sudanese refugee, tells Axios her family has been deeply affected by the impacts of climate change.
"I remember learning for the first time that one of the side effects of drought is flooding, " Mahmoud said. "When there's drought during the dry season, and then the rainy season comes, everything floods."
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