Egypt is hosting this year's COP27 climate summit — as it experiences a climate-fueled food crisis.
"We're definitely concerned about the impacts of climate change on the availability of food or crop production across Africa," said Sonali McDermid, an associate professor of environmental studies at New York University who researches agriculture, food insecurity and climate change.Climate isn't the only problem. Egypt's agriculture is impacted by pressure on water resources, including irrigation development around the Nile.
That development is threatened not only by rising sea levels or drought, but also by intensifying conflict between the neighboring countries that depend on it, as tensions simmer over"Being able to ensure food security for everybody within a nation state has to consider more than just the climate impact alone," said McDermid. "You have to consider what the underlying vulnerabilities are.
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