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Middle East wars could put worlds food security at risk
2014-09-08 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Millions of people could in future face starvation as an indirect result of the violent turmoil in the Middle East which has the highest concentration of wild crop plants needed to produce new food varieties, scientists said. Civil wars raging in Syria and Iraq threaten future food resources because of the crucial role the region plays as the home of the wild plants continually needed to improve the genetic quality of domesticated crops. The region, part of the Fertile Crescent, an ancient...
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