The 10 countries ranked most vulnerable in the survey - DRC, Burundi, South Africa, Haiti, Bangladesh, Zambia, India, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Rwanda - account for nearly a quarter of the world's population. If this were a banking crisis, surely these countries would be considered too big to fail.
The current food crisis East Africa is a harrowing example of how overexploited ecosystems, erratic weather and soaring food prices, when left unchecked, have catastrophic consequences for poor people.
I urge world leaders who are meeting at the G20 next month, including our own Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, to scale up investment in women and small farms in poor countries and deliver the climate cash promised to help poor people adapt to climate change.
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Lena Aahlby is the Director and Founder of StrategyforChange, a consultancy that works with the not-for-profit sector on strategy development, campaign design, training and capacity building. Lena has extensive experience of working with NGOs both in Australia and internationally, most recently in her capacity as International Programme Director for Greenpeace at the global HQ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Please see www.strategyforchange.org for more.
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