Food Shocks
Climate Change and the Coming Famines
Climate change is projected to make farming more challenging in coming decades. As the world’s population heads toward 10 billion, that challenge will become yet more complicated. Inside Climate News is investigating whether the global food system is prepared and if its biggest players are failing the world’s most vulnerable people.
A Hospital Ward for Starving Children in Kenya Has Seen a Surge in Cases This Year
Aid workers blame a climate change-induced drought that’s turned the Horn of Africa into a parched, barren wasteland. Many of the children nursed back to health will never fully recover.
By Georgina Gustin
![Families come to the Ammusait General Hospital malnutrition ward to tend to their sick children and family members. Staff is limited so family members become caretakers at the hospital. Credit: Larry C. Price](jpg/20220409_chambersburg-health-center__dsc6137.jpg_19-900x600.jpg)