Tackling Challenges in the MENA Region: Climate, Food Security, and Migration

May 26, 2023 | Angus Soderberg
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Climate change, food insecurity, and migration converge to create conditions that have made the MENA region even more susceptible to unrest and conflict. Yet changing temperature and precipitation patterns will have long term negative effects on more than just climate. These impacts will strain governance by putting pressure on the basic services of already strained governments. Rural populations, migrants, and marginalized groups that will bear the greatest burden as a result of these forces make matters even worse, said Reva Dhingra, a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Brookings Institute.