{"id":218224,"date":"2009-11-24T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T01:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/?p=21424"},"modified":"2009-11-24T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T01:53:37","slug":"conflict-in-africa-about-50-more-likely-in-unusually-warm-years-when-food-supply-is-scarce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218224","title":{"rendered":"Conflict in Africa About 50% More Likely in Unusually Warm Years When Food Supply is Scarce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-21423\" title=\"800px-Ashu_land\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/800px-Ashu_land-520x347.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Ashu_land\" width=\"520\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2009Nov24: <\/strong>Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, found that across Africa, conflict was about 50% more likely in unusually warm years when the food supply is scarce. The study appeared in Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). &#8220;Studies show that crop yields in the region are really sensitive to small shifts in temperature, even of half a degree (Celsius) or so,&#8221; research leader Marshall Burke, told BBC News. &#8220;If the sub-Saharan climate continues to warm and little is done to help its countries better adapt to high temperatures, the human costs are likely to be staggering,&#8221; Burke added (BBC).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong>BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8375949.stm\" >http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8375949.stm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full article &#8211; <\/strong>Marshall B. Burke, Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, John A. Dykema, and David B. Lobell.                      <strong>Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa<\/strong>. PNAS 2009 :                       \t\t0907998106v1-pnas.0907998106 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2009\/11\/20\/0907998106.abstract\" >http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2009\/11\/20\/0907998106.abstract<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image Description: <\/strong>Palm trees growing on the Ashu land in between the land inundated by the Nile called Gerif and the irrigated Saqiah land. Photo taken on Sherari Island in Dar al-Manasir, Northern Sudan. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ashu_land.JPG\" >http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ashu_land.JPG<\/a> Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009Nov24: Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, found that across Africa, conflict was about 50% more likely in unusually warm years when the food supply is scarce. The study appeared in Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). &#8220;Studies show that crop yields in the region are really sensitive to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}