The data is worrying: since the 1970s, the amount of human displacement due to natural disasters has doubled.
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Arid soils in Mauritania: crops often fail because severe drought leaving the Sahel region facing major food crises, affecting thousands of people. (Photo/Pablo Tosco/Oxfam/Flickr).