Wits Global Change Institute’s Professor Francois Engelbrecht said while the global average air temperature has risen by nearly 1°C since accurate weather records began a little over a century ago, temperature increases in southern Africa have been double that “making it quite literally, a climate hot spot”.
This is the backdrop against which the International Water Management Institute , the USAid Resilient Waters Programme, the Global Commission on Adaptation, the Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security and the World Resources Institute co-hosted the Two Degree Initiative Southern African Challenge this week.
“As governments focused their efforts not only on blocking the transmission of the disease, they also needed to consider how their responses affect food security today and in the future. This crisis is affecting workforces, transportation systems and supply chains – the very basis of how our food gets from field to fork,” said Jacobs-Mata.
Engle said these recurring droughts were coming at a significant human and economic cost. “If you look at the period between 1980 and 2015, droughts have cost the region upwards of $3.4 billion and have directly affected over 100 million people.
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