Evan Fraser article in NERC's 'Planet Earth Online'

1st June 2012 - 13:08

Inspecting the flood damage, Lake Katwe, Uganda

Evan Fraser's article is featured in NERC's 'Planet Earth Online'.

The study highlights food risk hotspots.

As countries wealth increases surely the risk of natural disasters such as floods and famine decreases? Evan's article focuses on how as poor countries develop there is a stage where the infrastructure isn't in place to prevent disasters such as drought happening as developed countries are able to.

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