The Global Food Crisis, Mapped

Submitted by ward on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:13am

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JUSTIN GILLIS

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Oxfam, the antihunger group, has been running a campaign to call attention to the global food crisis, its consequences and its potential solutions. The Times outlined the challenge of future food security on a warming planet in this article several weeks ago, and this week my colleague Jeffrey Gettleman described the appalling famine unfolding in Somalia.

Link:

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/the-global-food-crisis-mapped/

Geographic Area:

Somalia

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Regional

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A view of Horn of Africa's drought from space

Submitted by ward on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 10:34am

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The worst drought in 60 years has hit the Horn of Africa region, an area in east Africa that includes Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.

A recent satellite-derived animation from the European Space Agency illustrates the crisis as it worsened over the summer. The images above show soil moisture in the region from April to mid-July of this year. Green and blue depict higher levels of soil moisture while the increasing spread of orange and yellow illustrates areas with little to no moisture.