The G5 Sahel countries face multiple and interrelated challenges with high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, unequal access to basic services, poorly integrated markets, growing insecurity, an environment threatened by the degradation of soils, recurrent droughts and irregular precipitation.

Climate change is considered a factor aggravating shocks and stressors.   For example, the increasingly limited availability of livelihoods, combined with demographic pressure, can disrupt the delicate balance between farmers and herders who share water and pastures. There are indeed a lot of pressures on the earth. The potentially devastating consequences reinforce the  urgency to address the root causes of climate change and help communities adapt  .

Read more here  WFP in the Sahel: interview with Rama Leclerc (alliance-sahel.org)