Newswise — Africa’s growing season may decline by 40 percent by 2050 because of climate change, a new study has found.
Brent McCusker, associate chairman of the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University, is a co-author on the study and is available to media as an expert.
Reports say that by the middle of the century, Malawi's growing season is likely to be between 20 to 40 percent shorter than it is today.
And by the end of the century, the growing season may be between 25 to 55 percent shorter, with great variation between different regions.The changing rainfall could have a wide-reaching impact on one of the world's poorest countries, where about 80 percent of the people are smallholder farmers and 42 percent of children under the age of 5 experience stunting from malnutrition, according to the U.N. World Food Programme.
McCusker is concerned with how the environment is produced, reproduced, and commoditized to promote development in historically lesser developed areas. His research is focused in two areas (environment/development) with an interest in methods.
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