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Food insecurity is highest in the most fragile and degraded environments, prone to disasters and exposed to recurrent shocks and crises. In these landscapes, scarce in water and biodiversity, live some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Reliant on meagre resources, they lack access to diversified diets. They also have little opportunity to improve their health, education, economic growth, or development in the broadest sense.
Climate change and cyclical weather extremes have a disproportionate impact on these settings, multiplying existing threats to food security and nutrition. In the long term, climate change makes natural disasters more frequent and intense, land and water more scarce and difficult to access, and agricultural productivity harder to achieve.
Deprived of effective safety nets and social protection systems, poor and food insecure people can neither invest in more sustainable agricultural practices, nor even protect such modest resources as they have. They will instead resort to negative coping strategies, including overexploiting natural resources and further degrading the land. Two-thirds of people in Africa are estimated to be living on land that is degraded to some extent; globally, around a quarter of all land suitable for agriculture is degraded. As a result, every new drought or flood further depletes people’s assets, trapping them in a spiral of diminishing resilience and environmental misery.
Somali vision development organization (svdg) helps the community in galkacyo and the most vulnerable and food insecure communities manage natural resources sustainably
Access to clean water in arid and semi-arid contexts results in more diversified food, thereby complementing nutrition efforts. But as well as bringing communities closer to Zero Hunger, the restoration of degraded ecosystems boosts public health and reduces hardship in general. The availability of water and firewood closer to home, for example, reduces the need for women and girls to travel long distances to collect it – a common chore, which has been proved to expose them to harm.