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Population growth outpaces food supply conflict-ravaged Sahel - study
2014-10-20 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Sahel region's ability to produce food is not keeping pace with its growing population, and global warming will only exacerbate the imbalance, according to a new study. Among the 22 countries making up the arid region in northern Africa, the population grew to 471 million in 2010 from 367 million in 2000, a jump of nearly 30 percent. As the population grew rapidly, the production of crops remained essentially unchanged, said researchers from Lund University in Sweden. Using satellite...
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