News Headline
Opinion: Fighting climate change and famine with forests in the Horn of Africa
Source
Devex
Publication Date
2017-05-16
Right now, 17 million people in the Horn of Africa are at risk of starvation. Massive crop failures, due to lack of rainfall, have led to a problem so dire that senior United Nations officials called this the worst humanitarian crisis they have faced. But they should have seen this coming: the region has experienced dry spells for the past three years, largely influenced by climate change.