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Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

In the Horn of Africa, a climate change-induced drought is exposing cracks in the global food system and pushing humanitarian aid to a breaking point.

By Georgina Gustin

Ali Liban Guracho walks past dozens of dead cattle outside Garissa, Kenya. Credit: Larry C. Price
Pastoralists from the local Gabra community walk among carcasses of some of their sheep and goats on the outskirts of a small settlement called 'Kambi ya Nyoka' (snake camp) suspected to have succumbed due to sudden change in climate in Marsabit county January 29, 2022. - A devastating drought in Kenya late-last year, that appeared to give way to flash storms that yielded flooding and chilly weather conditions in early 2022, has seen pastoral communities in the east african nation's arid north lose their livestock, first to drought and then floods and cold. Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

In Africa, Conflict and Climate Super-Charge the Forces Behind Famine and Food Insecurity

By Georgina Gustin

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