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Columbia Climate School

Spreading Famine

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Violent conflicts are behind increased hunger in sub-Saharan Africa says a new study. Here, a farmer carries forage for his mule in southwestern Ethiopia. Further north in the country, starvation spread this year in the face of civil war.

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Jacquelyn Turner, International Research Institute for Climate and Society

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