Climate change poses threat to human cradle

  • 27/06/2005

Climate change in Africa gave rise to modern humans. Now experts fear that global warming linked to carbon emissions will have its worst impact on humanity's cradle. "Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change', said Jennifer Morgan director of the Global Climate Change Programme at conservation group WWF. "Most African livelihoods depend o rain-based agriculture so droughts and floods will have a serious impact on the workforce', she said.