The Middle East is the most water-stressed region in the world with the climate crisis threatening to displace millions of people by 2050
By 2060, Egypt's already stretched agricultural sector could shrink by as much as 47 percent, researchers predict.
Agriculture in Egypt — "one of the most arid countries in the world" — has grown even less profitable because of new climate-linked hazards such as "the appearance of new parasites", he said.By 2060, Egypt's already stretched agricultural sector could shrink by as much as 47 percent, researchers predict.
Globally, the World Bank estimates that by 2050, if nothing is done to prevent it, there will be 216 million people internally displaced by the climate crisis, including 19.3 million in North Africa. In the Egyptian city of Alexandria, for example, two million people — nearly a third of its inhabitants — could be displaced and 214,000 jobs lost if the sea level rises by half a metre.Climate-induced urban migration can "increase the pressure on natural resources", according to economist Assem Abu Hatab, "thus leading to social tensions and violent conflict" in a region where agriculture currently accounts for 22 percent of employment.
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