🔬 How Can Countries Prevent Shocks And Disasters
Published by OOPSONLINE.IN · Source: Phys.org · 1 min read · · Updated
What actually happened
Floods, wildfires, conflicts, earthquakes, economic shocks, hurricanes or epidemics: These unexpected and often dramatic events affect people's lives and jobs, destroy crops, wipe out livestock and stored food, contaminate water, block roads, cut off communities and severely affect access to markets and food. This is a distressing picture—one expected to get much worse in the near future because of climate change and an increasingly polarized world. Yet science says no: These natural and human-made shocks do not have to lead to more hunger by default.
Key points
- Floods, wildfires, conflicts, earthquakes, economic shocks, hurricanes or epidemics: These unexpected and often dramatic events affect people's lives and jobs, destroy crops, wipe out livestock and stored food, contaminate water, block roads, cut off communities and severely affect access to markets and food.
- This is a distressing picture—one expected to get much worse in the near future because of climate change and an increasingly polarized world.
- Yet science says no: These natural and human-made shocks do not have to lead to more hunger by default.
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