Changing Rain Patterns & Rising Salt Infiltration Cut Food Production In Outlying Islets Of Solomons

Climate change has so badly affected crops in a tiny South Pacific island group that hungry children are being sent home early from school. They do not have enough energy to concentrate on lessons.

The Reef Islands are part of the Solomon Islands' far-eastern Temotu Province. A severe food shortage is affecting the nine outlying atolls in the province's north-west. Government officials and Red Cross workers have been visiting the Reef group to compile a report on the situation.

Temotu province secretary Freddy Me'esa told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat program the team said crop shortages were due to rising sea levels and alteration of the rainfall pattern.

"Crop failure in the Reef Islands is due mainly to weather patterns of climate change," Mr Me'esa said.

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