A new study says the human-made climate crisis has had little to do with the current food scarcity in the country.
The UN's World Food Programme and multiple media organizations have been warning that the African island nation of Madagascar is on the brink of the world's first climate-change-induced famine. But a new study says the human-made climate crisis has had little to do with the current food scarcity in the country.
The group said that poverty, poor infrastructure and a high level of dependence on rain for agriculture were also behind the country's food crisis. "Instead, the study finds that vulnerability to low rainfall is the main factor behind the food crisis," the study reads."Covid restrictions to limit public health impacts also stopped people from the region going elsewhere in the country to find work, as many people have done at other times."
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change report published in August found that Madagascar was projected to see an increase in drought if global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. It is also predicted to experience a higher intensity of tropical cyclones.
The study found the region naturally experiences a high variation in its rain patterns. In today's climate, Madagascar has a 1-in-135 chance of such a drought occurring in any given year, it showed. "Unless carbon emissions are reduced globally, any increase in extreme weather events will compound existing vulnerabilities and particularly harm the poorest people, making it harder for them to cope with compounding shocks like the one we are seeing now."
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