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Watch human population grow from 1 CE to present and see projected growth in under six minutes. One dot = 1 million people. © Population Connection, 2015. Via mrhill 
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"The Sahel’s ability to produce food is not keeping pace with its growing population, and global warming will only exacerbate the imbalance, according to a new study. Among the 22 countries making up the arid region in northern Africa, the population grew to 471 million in 2010 from 367 million in 2000, a jump of nearly 30%. As the population grew rapidly, the production of crops remained essentially unchanged. Using satellite images to calculate annual crop production in the conflict-ridden Sahel belt, south of the Sahara desert, the researchers then compared output with population growth and food and fuel consumption."
Tags: Africa, Sahel, population, environment, water, ecology, environment depend, weather and climate, sustainability, agriculture, food production. Via CT Blake
Raymond Dolloff's curator insight,
December 15, 2015 12:22 AM
If a country has a big population growth, the resources that it has if they are already scarce may become devastating. As the population of Sahel does increase, the amount of food resources will not have the proper time to react to the growth. Granted it may take a while for agricultural crops to grow and many citizens may face hard times facing finding food, but their hardships will be overcome by farmers trying to produce more crops to help ease that hardship. 
Martin Kemp's curator insight,
December 17, 2015 2:38 PM
this seems like an alarmingly common problem in the world today with population growth happening at an alarming rate in many parts of the world. most notably india and china. as well as in sahel, if your population grows by 100 million in 10 years it will be impossible to keep up and be able to provide for that many people in such a reletively short time. 
Stevie-Rae Wood's curator insight,
December 9, 2018 3:34 PM
Also known as the African Transition Zone, this region is one of the harshest areas on the planet. So it is no wonder that the Sahel is having trouble feeding the population influx. It is a very Arid climate making food production difficult if lacking the technology to make this desert terrain work, which the Sahel does lack. The global warming that is taking is also going to have a terrible effect on the Sahel if there population trends continue. They need help, mostly how to make this area sustainable for the people that live here.
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