Sentences with phrase «weathered the food shortages»

It has weathered the food shortages that have affected rural communities across Borno State.

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With risks ranging from extreme weather, water shortage, and unsustainable urbanisation to non-communicable disease, youth unemployment, and the global food crisis, we recommend you consult all three Global Opportunity Reports and seek out the risk areas most relevant for you.

At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to crop failures and even widespread famine as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.

These seabirds live in a harsh environment and often face stress in the form of food shortages and poor weather conditions.

If their own chance of survival is reduced because of a food shortage or weather conditions, they will focus more on themselves and spend more time looking for their own food than on the care of their only chick.

A report has looked at which sections of the population are left most exposed to food shortages after extreme weather events.

Whether the hazards are from accidents, weather, food shortages, or predators, species and organisms that live in dangerous environments will breed sooner, have more young more quickly, and die earlier than species and organisms in safe environments.

Their report suggested that water and food shortages, combinedwith violent weather events, could lead to massive upheavals andinstigate conflicts in every global region.

But whatever our stance on CO2, it's clear we need to prepare somewhat better for extreme weather events, water, food and energy shortages than we do now.

The declaration also recognizes that «it may be too late to avert drastic climate change» and encourages compassionate responses to «such calamitous challenges as population displacement, food and water shortage, catastrophic weather, and rampant disease.»

«Our two children, now in their mid thirties, face the second half of their lives in a world wracked by severe weather, plagues, food shortages, civil unrest and loss of biodiversity.

The stark report states that climate change has already increased the risk of severe heatwaves and other extreme weather and warns of worse to come, including food shortages and violent conflicts.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

Freak weather patterns will not only affect agricultural output and food security, but will also lead to water shortages and trigger outbreaks of water and mosquito - borne diseases such as diarrhea and malaria in many developing nations.

For instance, extreme weather events in one region may impact production of commodities that are traded internationally, contributing to shortages of supply and hence increased prices to consumers, influencing financial markets and disrupting food security worldwide, with social unrest a possible outcome of food shortages.

Situations where water may run dry, where mass migrations are provoked by food shortages or where extreme weather events on the rise.

The Lowy Institute report argues that expected climate change «poses fundamental questions of human security, survival and the stability of nation states» and identifies food shortages, extreme weather events and rising sea - levels as potential causes of large - scale, unregulated population movements in Asia and destabilisation of governments unable to respond.

Another very ugly result of diverting billions of tons of agriculture to fuel production is the consequence of food shortages and skyrocketing food prices, especially when other sources of food are interrupted due to natural weather events.

Right now it seems that: It's more likely that Summer Arctic Sea Ice extent will disappear before 2025 It's more likely that 2 C will occur nearer to 2033 than 2040 It's more likely that 4 C will occur closer to 2050 than 2100 It's more likely that more people will die from heat stress, disease, or severe clean water and food shortages than extreme weather events.

Beyond that, «more frequent and extreme weather events will compound things further, creating shortages, destabilizing markets, and precipitating food price spikes which will be felt on top of the projected structural price rises.»

The weather presumably contributed to the food shortages that exacerbated that upheaval.

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.

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