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Deep Concern About Food Security in Eastern Africa

The Horn of Africa is facing drought and crop failures after four inadequate rainy seasons.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Deep Concern About Food Security in Eastern Africa.

NASA Earth Observatory maps by Lauren Dauphin, using Acute Food Insecurity Phase data from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network and rainfall accumulation data from Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS). NASA animations by Trent Schindler, NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, using data from the FEWS NET Land Data Assimilation System (FLDAS). Story by Michael Carlowicz.

Published August 16, 2022
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