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Tag Archives: Sahara

North Africa to lose another breadbasket due to climate change – Egypt’s Nile Delta dries out and submerges simultaneously, millions of migrants likely

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Climate change not only causes decreased agricultural production due to droughts and desertification in Mediterranean North Africa and the ‘Fertile Crescent’ of the Middle East – it will also cost the region several thousands square kilometers of its most productive … Continue reading →

Posted in Bits of Climate, Bits of Demography | Tagged agricultural productivity, climate change, climate migrants, desertification, Egypt, migrants, Nile Delta, North Africa, Sahara, sea level rise

More people, less food? Climate change causes North African cereal production to decrease. Uncertainty about eastern Sahel though

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Rolf Schuttenhelm
Posted in Bits of Climate, Bits of Food & Health, Bits of Resources | Tagged Africa, agricultural productivity, agriculture, cereal, climate change, climate migrants, desertification, drought, emissions scenarios, IPCC, ITCZ | monsoon, migration, New IPCC report | IPCC AR5, North Africa, Sahara, UNDP, wheat
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