Africa
- Created by: Julie Simpkin
- Created on: 09-05-13 08:47
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- Africa
- Increased temperature - floods and droughts
- More extreme rainfall events
- Poor government
- Corrupt
- Colonial rule
- Large debts
- Trade depends on primary cash crops
- Poor soil (not fertile)
- Low rainfall
- Food insecurity
- Conflict over land
- Famine
- 70% of farmers are subsistence farmers
- Cyclones - warmer sea, more evaporation, more rain, more energy
- More frequent and severe
- Deforestation causes desertification
- Coral bleaching
- Coral breaks up tsunamis - without it, nothing to break them up
- Water issues
- Most sources shared - conflict
- Demand > supply
- Debt problems means there is no money for mitigation strategies to combat climate change
- Deforestation causes desertification
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