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Sohini Sengupta, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

How droughts can leave people with nowhere to go

By 2050 around 145 million people in the Global South could be forced to relocate within their own countries due to the gradual impacts of worsening droughts brought on by climate change.

The 2018 World Bank report, imaginatively titled 'Groundswell', predicted that such internal migrants would range from 86 million in sub-Saharan Africa to 40 million in South Asia and 17 million in Latin America.

As areas become uninhabitable due to violent storms, scarcity of water and the collapse of agriculture, people will seek more hospitable places to live.

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