Sub-Saharan Africa emits just 0.55% of global harmful emissions but is paying a heavy price for climate change, which is destroying crops, killing livestock, disrupting transport links and leaving millions without reliable access to food.
Add to that global economic headwinds, the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the region is facing a perfect storm. “Africa is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition” due to “multiple and overlapping shocks and protracted crises”, Abebe Haile-Gabriel, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s regional representative for Africa, told a conference in Addis Ababa on October 10.
