One Billion Mountain People Marching on Cities?
5 January 2018 (Wall Street International) – They are as many as one billion human beings, often geographically isolated, living on the political and economic margins of their countries, and thus more prone to hunger and poverty.
On top of this, they are increasingly affected by climate change and climate-induced disasters. As a logic, understandable consequence, the mountain people become more vulnerable. And so they migrate to urban areas and even abroad.
The dramatic situation of mountain people could hardly be more accurately depicted as the United Nations has done on the occasion of the 11 December 2017 International Mountain Day: Mountains under Pressure: climate, hunger, migration.
Moreover, one in three mountain people in developing countries is vulnerable to food insecurity. For rural areas, it is one out of every two people, according to Maria Helena Semedo, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s deputy director-general.
Those who remain are often women, left to manage the farms but with little access to credit, training and land tenure rights, reminds the UN specialised agency.
Baher Kamal‘s article was published in Wall Street International on 5 January 2018. Go to Original
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