Southern Africa food and climate crisis
More than nine million people in Southern Africa are facing severe food shortages.
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More than nine million people in Southern Africa are facing severe food shortages.
The climate crisis is fuelling one of the worst droughts on record across the Horn of Africa, with up to 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing severe hunger.
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The G7-backed African Risk Capacity (ARC) drought insurance policy was an experiment that failed Malawi, and in particular its women, in the face of a drought that need not have become a disaster. The