Tag: Middle East and climate change
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The Anatomy of Agri-Food Shocks Visualised: Wars, Climate, and Food
The price of a loaf of bread or a bag of rice looks simple at the checkout. Behind it sits a much longer chain: natural gas turned into ammonia, phosphate and potash mined in a handful of countries, fertiliser shipped through narrow sea lanes, and weather deciding what finally grows in the field. The global…
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Climate Change, Conflict and the Middle East’s Misery
Of all the regions of the world that will face severe devastation as a result of climate change, perhaps none seems as destined to suffer as the Middle East, already the planet’s hottest and driest. With temperatures expected to rise more than twice the global average by 2030, this region of highest water scarcity may…