Sahel food crisis: The cost of climate change » dioum

“The climate was better in the past," said Fatoumata Dioum, shown here in her garden in Fafacourou, Senegal. "Now, there is sometimes too much rain, sometimes not enough. We began to notice this more than ten years ago.” Photo: Holly Pickett/Oxfam

“The climate was better in the past,” said Fatoumata Dioum, shown here in her garden in Fafacourou, Senegal. “Now, there is sometimes too much rain, sometimes not enough. We began to notice this more than ten years ago.” Photo: Holly Pickett/Oxfam

The women and men I met in Senegal have borne the brunt of powerful storms and extremes of heat and drought, and they know for a fact that when it comes to weather, they live in a different world than the last generation. Photo: Holly Pickett/Oxfam

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