From Africa Recovery, Vol.12#2 (November 1998), Watch page

GLOBAL WARMING
Famine in Africa more widespread by 2050, says UK study

Climate change will cause severe drought conditions in large areas of Africa by 2050, according to findings presented in early November at the Buenos Aires global warming conference. The projections on global warming's impact, prepared by a British research team, point to an additional 30 million people hit by famine in 50 years' time because of the reduced ability to grow crops in large parts of Africa.

Forecasting an average 6 per cent increase in global land temperatures over the next century, the study concludes that climate change will have the strongest impact on food supply in Southern and Central Africa and parts of North and South America. The study also projects rising sea levels world wide, with the coasts of Egypt and West and East Africa among the most vulnerable regions. Global warming could also cause malaria to spread to parts of the world which are now free of the disease, including the eastern highlands of Africa and parts of Europe.

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