UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left
Droughts and flooding have become so common in some of the poorest places on Earth that the land can no longer sustain crops, the director of the World Food Programme’s global office has said.
Martin Frick told the BBC that some of the most deprived areas had now reached a tipping point of having “zero” harvests left, as extreme weather was pushing already degraded land beyond use.
He said that as a result, parts of Africa, the Middle East and Latin America were now dependent on humanitarian aid.
Mr Frick warned that without efforts to reverse land degradation globally, richer countries would also begin to suffer crop failures.
The Global Environment Facility estimates that 95% of the world’s land could become degraded by 2050. The UN says that 40% is already degraded.
When soil degrades, the organic matter that binds it together dies off. This means that it is less able to support plant life – reducing crop yields – and absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
Soil is the second largest carbon sink after the oceans, and is recognised by the UN as a key tool for mitigating climate change.
“There's too much carbon in the air and too little carbon in the soils,” Mr Frick said. “With every inch of soil that you're growing, you're removing enormous amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere.
“So healthy soils – carbon-rich soils – are a prerequisite to fixing climate change.”
Land degradation can be caused by modern farming techniques removing organic content from soil, but also prolonged droughts interspersed with sudden, extreme rainfall.
Scientists say many extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense as a result of climate change.
While it is hard to link climate change to specific droughts, scientists have said global warming has made certain ones, like the recent one in East Africa, more likely.
Mr Frick said that in Burundi, in East Africa, months of heavy rain and flooding had damaged 10% of its farmland, making it unusable for the upcoming harvest season.
He pointed to a UN report, released in March, which found that cereal crops in the Darfur region of Sudan were 78% below the average for the previous five years amid civil war and drought.
"those are the facts" says biggest moron you have ever met
I'm so happy I have a flight to take in the next few days and it's an Airbus that's going to take me. Those Frenchies can't do much right but atleast they can build a plane that stays in the air.
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I love the president, he is decisive, ambitious and <ERROR 404: PRESIDENTIAL ATTRIBUTE NOT FOUND>
NATO Special forces confirmed to be operating as of two years ago as per NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/us/politics/commandos-russia-ukraine.html
one of the sources was literally "confidential information"
Yes but caveat: I am in the public sector and unionized.
I know a magazine that might be looking for a personal finance columnist if you're interested.
ive been using compound w on a planters wart on my pinky toe for a week or so now and its been going away. youre supposed to do it twice a day but i honestly dont have time and am on my feet all day for work, i have to like peel the dead skin off, apply the ointment, then let it do its thing. i imagine it would be faster if i followed the instructions lol
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Working commisionable sales and seeing me sell $45,000 worth of camera equipment and getting a $2500 bonus for the quarter for doing it. I sold more than my yearly salary to dentists, doctors and lawyers dropping 3-5 grand on top of the line camera systems so they can take photos of pigeons from their living room.
Literally I got that cheque and was like "marx was right"
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I use Mullvad, privacy focused which is cool. No emails, no nothing. Your account is a string of like 24 digits and you add time on their website. They even do envelopes of cash and crypto or bank transfers if you're into that. 5 euro/month.
Biggest risk is like fire inspector, city inspector or someone coming in and seeing residential use in a commercial building and an eviction following suit.
Might get away with an "artist studio" like user above aaidwith a work space in one corner and maybe a futon, basics in one corner and minimum appliances (mini fridge, microwave, kettle) it can't look permanent, which is hard.
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Looks like a parody banner from a Starship Troopers type movie. We would criticize it for being over the top of this was a Hollywood movie.
do these cops text the whole state when they take an l? lmfao what the fuck
