Climate Change Will Displace Millions
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In the next two to three decades, huge parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America will become uninhabitable and uncultivable due to desertification or flooding, stranding millions of people who depend on these lands and soils for food and livelihood. That’s the finding of a new study, with empirical evidence, which calls for urgent mitigation and adaptation strategies for the world’s most vulnerable people.
In Search of Shelter, released today by Columbia University, CARE International, and the United Nations University, maps the effects of climate change on human migration and confirms that rural people around the world – especially those in the vulnerable countries that most depend on agriculture for survival – will be affected first and worst. The report calls for stepping up measures to help affected people adapt and build resilience to these coming changes so that fewer people will be forced to migrate.
The report’s findings underline just how critically important a role ecologically sensitive small-scale agriculture plays, not only for effectively combating the effects of climate change but also as strategy for adaptation through biodiversity. Another new report, this one from Statistics Canada, is evidence that the prevailing large-scale agriculture practices in the global North continue to significantly contribute to our global climate crisis. That report found the energy that’s required to put food on the table in Canada alone produced nearly 46,000 kilotonnes of greenhouse gases in 2003.
USC Canada’s Seeds of Survival program supports small scale farmers around the world – people who are on the front lines dealing with the impacts of climate change despite being the least responsible for creating the problem. USC Canada is helping them develop sustainable, resilient agricultural systems that will allow them to adapt to climate change and safeguard the right to food. Together we can help ensure that climate change doesn’t create a human development crisis.
Read this recent Martin Mittelstadt article in Canada’s Globe and Mail to find out more about how Global Climate Change is expected to affect people around the world – including people in Canada! And read In Search of Shelter (pdf – 2MB) to get the full picture.
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