So with increasing tensions between major countries over nuclear proliferation, whether it exists or not, the changing drought patterns across the globe and profoundly in the southwest USA, the world has no added danger in regard to human survival and the temptations to war for what might be motivated by water rights? No threat to escalation of tensions anywhere for food stores?
Someone is not being realistic.
With escalated threats of war which wipes out supplies of clean water and food, complicated by climate change, the danger to all countries exists whether they want to acknowledge it openly or not.
MALAWI: Small farmers hit by changes in the climate
JOHANNESBURG, 20 April 2007 (IRIN) - JOHANNESBURG, 20 April 2007 (IRIN) - Small-scale farmers in Malawi are becoming aware that they are bearing the brunt of climate change, which has been adversely affecting productivity, according to a new study by an international aid agency.
"Changing rainfall patterns and higher temperatures have forced farmers to shorten the growing season and switch to more expensive hybrid crops," said a report based on the study, 'Climate change and smallholder farmers in Malawi', by Action Aid International.
The research was conducted in Salima district, in Malawi's central region, and Nsanje in the south, as part of an effort to understand poor people's experiences in adapting to climate change.
"While policy responses to global warming have been mainly driven by debates among scientists, the insights of poor people living on the frontline have been largely neglected," the report commented.
Farmers are increasingly concerned about the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security. "Food availability has been an issue over the years since the disasters began. Much as we have experienced floods in those days, the impact was somehow not as severe. As time went by, there has been a drop in crop production due to frequent flooding and droughts," said a farmer in Salima district.
