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Card #37: Famines

Causes		Consequences
Marine Biodiversity Decline in Agricultural Yields		Human Health Climate Refugees

Starvation can be caused by lower agricultural yields and by the reduction of marine biodiversity.

Correction

Causes

• Marine Biodiversity
• Decline Agricultural Yields

Consequences

• Human Health
• Climate Refugees

Other possible links

Other causes

• Freshwater resources if we consider that a famine is not only a lack of food but also a lack of water.

Other consequences

• Armed conflicts

To go further

12^th March 2020: The Food and Agriculture Organization warns of a new locust invasion in Kenya in Somalia and Ethiopia (terrestrial biodiversity) that poses an unprecedented threat to food security (lower agricultural yields).

Decrease in the quantity of fruit trees in the Sahel.

Crop yields in South Asia declining despite technological improvements.