Sahel

Question 1

How many people face hunger in the Sahel due to declining crop yields?

Answer 1

20 million

Question 2

Explain how conflict is a (social) impact.

Answer 2

rising tensions over water and land access fuel violent clashes, espcially between farmers and pastoralists

Question 3

What percent of the workforce in Sahel countries rely on farming?

Answer 3

80%
This is now increasngly unviable

Question 4

How much arable land in the sahel is now degraded? Impact?

Answer 4

65%
- worsens hunger and malnutrition (especially where many already rely on subsistence farming)
- leads to soil erosion, where fertile topsoil blows or washes away. plants are unable to grow so carbon absorption is reduced so climate change is reduced, especially on this large scale.
-damaging ecosystems

Question 5

By how much has rainfall dropped by? Leads to..?

Answer 5

up to 30%
drying of wells and rivers

Question 6

What fraction of Burkina Faso’s children are not at their full potential as a result of this?

Answer 6

2/3