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Sep 19, 2022 · The Sahel region is particularly vulnerable to land degradation, experiencing more extreme droughts, floods, and other impacts caused by climate change. Three of the G5 countries – Chad, Niger, and Mali – rank among the top seven most vulnerable countries to climate change and their ability to adapt is significantly constrained by poverty ...
By the end of 2020, 10,000 civilians were killed. In a growing humanitarian crisis, over 2.5 million people have been internally displaced within the Sahel region. That is a twenty-fold increase in just two years. The majority of the displaced are women and children, with over 75% remaining without adequate shelter.
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The first instances of domestication of plants for agricultural purposes in Africa occurred in the Sahel region circa 5000 B.C.E., when sorghumand African Rice began to be cultivated. Around this time, and in the same region, the small Guineafowl were domesticated. Around 4000 B.C.E. the climate of the Sahara and the Sahel started to become drier a...
The Sahelian kingdoms were a series of empires, based in the Sahel, which had many similarities. The wealth of the states came from controlling the Trans-Saharan trade routes across the desert. Their power came from having large pack animals like camels and horses that were fast enough to keep a large empire under central control and were also usef...
Traditionally, most of the people in the Sahel have been semi-nomads, farming and raising livestock in a system of transhumance, which is probably the most sustainable way of utilizing the Sahel. The difference between the dry north with higher levels of soil-nutrients and the wetter south is utilized so that the herds graze on high quality feed in...
There was a major drought in the Sahel in 1914, caused by annual rains far below average, that caused a large-scale famine. The 1960s saw a large increase in rainfall in the region, making the northern, drier, region more accessible. There was a push, supported by governments, for people to move northward, and as the long drought-period from the la...
The people of the Sahel have been both victims and abusers of the environment. Destructive measures have been implemented in the region, such as the clearing of large areas of the green belt of all vegetation in order to make way for annual crops. A system such as increasing the population of perennials in the agriculturalzone would stabilize the l...
Eden Foundation. Desertification—a threat to the Sahel.August 1994. Retrieved December 19, 2008.National Geographic Society. Sahelian Acacia savanna (AT0713).Retrieved December 19, 2008.O'Brien, Patrick K. Oxford Atlas of World History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0199746538Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Jean-Paul Azam, Christian Morrisson, Sophie Chauvin, and Sandrine Rospabé. Conflict and Growth in Africa. Vol. 1, The Sahel. Development Cent...Sep 19, 2022 · Newly released Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for the G5 Sahel region estimates that up to 13.5 million people across the Sahel could fall into poverty due to climate change-related shocks by 2050 if urgent climate adaptation measures are not taken.
Jul 24, 2015 · The Sahel is the semi-arid southern shore of the Saharan 'sea of sand'. It holds a special place in climate science, because of the long-standing debate on the causes of persistent drought in the ...
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ests to just south of the Sahara desert (roughly between 10 ° and 20 °N).” However, there is no universally defined list of countries of the Sahel. For the purpose of this Climate Risk Profile the Sahel shall be defined as the states of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal, in
The Sahel, meaning “the shore” in Arabic, is a vast area crossing 6,000 kilometres from East to West Africa. It covers many geographic and agro-ecological systems, 12 countries and is home to 400 million people. The political region of the Sahel, as defined by the United Nations strategy (UNISS), covers 10 countries (Senegal, Gambia ...
