The sahel Flashcards
What are the three food security risk factors effecting the Sahel
Armed conflict
Threats from non-native species and animals
Climate change
Specifically, what is causing these three food security risk factors in the Sahel
Armed Conflict
Locust invasion
Drought
What is the locust invasion
Tropical grasshopper swarms that are threatening the food security of the Sahel
Why are locusts a threat to food security in the sahel
Due to their voraciousness
Alarming mobility
Rapid reproduction
How are they effecting food security in the Sahel
- They attack at times where food stores were exhausted of produced and new produced had been beginning to grow,
- Destroy new and all produce causing an extreme food shortage and food insecurity in the Sahel.
- Affected the farmers finance as they had invested their savings into the produced which had been destroyed and therefore suffered from unstable finance and a lack of money to be able to reinvest.
Solutions for the locust invasion
- Government spraying them with chemicals (but is causing deaths to livestock due to the chemicals)
- Helicopters are used to track swarms
Describe drought in the Sahel
Where farmers are unable to cope with the extreme drought season meaning there is a poor harvest causing extreme food shortages and insecurity.
Effects of drought in the Sahel
- Loss of crops and animals
- Eating seeds indented to plant for the next year
- Food price inflation
- Subsistence farmers are relying on non government organizations for food (NGOs)
- Climate change has increased the number of droughts
- Displacement
- Conflict
- Children learning difficulties and malnutrition
- Finance struggles
- Transhumance- moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle
Solutions to drought in the Sahel
Governments need to raise awareness earlier to prevent sever effects
Investment in longer term programs
Drought resistant seeds
Moving back to tradition crops
Reduce number of children per family
Describe conflict in the Sahel
Conflict between, armed groups, banditry and intercommunal violence in Mali and the Lake Chad Basin is effecting food security and impacting children
What regions in the Sahel are impacted by armed conflict
Mali and Lake Chad Basin
Effect of armed conflict
- Displacement of children and families
- Poor living conditions,
No access to healthcare, social facilities or education - Increase in grave violations
- Children experiencing trauma, sexual abuse, kidnapping,
- Hunger and water scarcity
Solutions to armed conflict in the Sahel
- Fighters from Al-qeda and ISIL are supporting
- Support from France and the US,
- Us minister is raising awareness.
- Humanitarian assistance
How many regions are in the Sahel
9
Name the regions in the Sahel
Sengal, Mauritina, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea
