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Reliance on fewer crops increase climate change food security threat
2014-03-04 12:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: As people from all corners of the world are living off an increasingly similar diet, decreasing crop diversity is making the global food system more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, a new study has warned. The study, which is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, claims to be the first to quantify the effects of a trend towards a unified international diet over the last 50 years. "Over the past 50 years, we are...
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Boosting Green Transition Will Improve Food Security, UN Says On Africa Environment Day
2014-03-04 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AllAfrica: Ensuring food security is one of the most pressing challenges in Africa, which is increasingly losing ground as a result of challenges from climate change to land degradation, the top United Nations environment official today said, urging a stronger emphasis on the continent's transition to a 'green economy.' "From plugging into solar power in Algeria and Tunisia to investing in green funds in South Africa, diverse pathways to greener and more-inclusive economies are being pursued across the continent,"...
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Weather Extremes Show Food Security Should be Major Concern
2014-02-13 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Extreme weather events like those experienced around the world in recent months have shown the importance of ensuring everything is done to protect agricultural land and enable farmers to meet future food production challenges, NFU President Peter Kendall will tell MPs today (Wednesday).
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Climate change: Food security should be top priority for Pakistan
2014-01-25 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dawn: Experts from various disciplines gathered at the Climate Change Conference in Karachi stressed a dire need for research on the issue in Pakistan as it ranked amongst countries highly vulnerable to the phenomena. The conference, organised by Habib University, highlighted the urgent need to incorporate climate change adaptation into the national climate policy. The keynote speaker, Dr Bruce McCarl, a disitinguised professor of Agricultural Economic at Texas A&M University, sounded the alarm and...
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Climate Change Threatens East Africa's Food Security
2014-01-11 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The report, East African Agriculture and Climate Change, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), looks at threats to food supplies in 11 countries in East and Central Africa -- Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Agriculture dominates the economies of countries in East Africa: if plans aren't made to adapt to climate change the region's rapidly expanding population...
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