Climate change: Global water and food shortages ‘to cause new European migrant crisis’
More than 1.2 billion people could be driven from homes by extreme weather, drought and food shortages by 2050
Independent.co.uk
12 Organizations Combating Food Insecurity in Yemen
The armed conflict in Yemen has brought famine, displacement, and violence to its residents since 2015. The country faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises with more than 24 million people requiring assistance, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Food Tank
With rising population and declining arable land, China may be staring at a major food crisis
Since 1949, China lost one fifth of its arable land to urbanisation and industrialisation and currently only about 10 to 15 per cent of the land is left good for agriculture (compared to 50 percent in India).
India Times
Climate change, migration, and the future of pandemics
In the late 18th century, a French zoologist visiting South Africa documented a deadly local livestock disease, known as bluetongue, noting a “prodigious swelling of the tongue, which then fills the whole mouth and throat; and the animal is every moment in danger of being choaked [sic].” Fast-forward some 240 years, and the disease can be found virtually worldwide.
Thefern.org
‘Job creation in rural areas will stem urban migration’
Ensuring job opportunities in other states can help to prevent the poor from moving to Kuala Lumpur merely to live off handouts, two social scientists said yesterday.
Thesundaily.my
Food system transformation may require an unprecedented level of global cooperation
"Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both." This sentence, the opening statement of the EAT-Lancet Report published last year, reflects a growing consensus among global experts on food, nutrition and the environment: Our food system is broken and we need to fix it, fast.
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