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标题：A favorable climate for insurance
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作者：Dr. Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer ; Dr. Stefan,Hochrainer ; Dr. Reinhard Mechler 等
期刊名称：Options Magazine
出版年度：2007
期号：2007
页码：16-16
出版社：International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
摘要：Africa is already particularly vulnerable to climate variability. In the last year alone, some 25 million people in sub.Saharan Africa faced weather-related food crises. And in Southern Africa drought and adverse weather caused much of the recent hunger experienced there (Table 1). But climate change is set to make many of Africa’s problems worse. Faced with climate change impacts ranging from droughts and heat waves to windstorms and other weather extremes, scientists argue that many of Africa’s dry areas will become drier and its wet areas wetter. It is forecast that by 2020 between 75 and 250 million Africans will suffer from too much or too little water. In some African countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could fall by half by 2020.