GEOS2121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Anglo-Irish Trade War, Economic Collapse, Glossary Of Botanical Terms
29 Nov 2018
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West africa"s forest savanna transition zone is in crisis: farming, population and urbanization place unbearable strain on its forest and spread the savannas . The forests of west africa"s transition zone form a declinate ecology a front line between equatorial rainforests and the arid sahel. However, farming also promotes growth of savanna in some areas. Farmers can enrich the environment, biodiversity: they don"t only do damage. Yemen"s unseen economic war is killing children by stealth. Jobs, economic infrastructure and basic services have been systematically targeted by acts of war: rising food and fuel prices, employment and declining wages, economic strangulation and war are driving the country towards a manmade famine. Yemen could face famine in 2018 as war continues, aid agencies warn. Hodeidah = the country"s main entry point for food and humanitarian supplies + saleef) have been closed due to the war. However if restricted again, we would face a catastrophic loss of life (lack of supplies)
