According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations last Thursday, global warming will destroy food production in many countries and increase the number of hungry people immeasurably.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization last Thursday, global warming will destroy food production in many countries and increase the number of hungry people immeasurably.
The organization said in the report that food distribution systems and their infrastructure will be privatized and that the most serious impact will certainly be expressed in the countries south of the Sahara Desert (sub-Saharan African).
"There is clear evidence that the global climate is changing and that the social and economic costs of slowing down global warming and responding to its effects will be considerable," says a report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's committee regarding global food security.
Many scientists fear that rising temperatures, which is mainly due to heat-trapping gases originating from the burning of crude fuel, will lead to the melting of the ice poles, raise the sea level by almost a meter at the end of this century and lead to more floods, droughts and droughts.
Global warming will increase the land areas classified as "arid" or "insufficiently moist" in the developing world.
In Africa, it is possible that by 2008 there will be up to 90 million hectares of this rough type of land, an area about four times the area of Great Britain. Changes in temperature, the amount of rain and an increase in the amount of "extreme weather events" such as floods will bring with them devastating effects.
The world suffered 600 floods in the last two and a half years, which took the lives of 19,000 people and caused 25 billion dollars in damages, to which was added the devastating tsunami in December, in Southeast Asia, which killed more than 180,000 people.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said that scientific studies have shown that global warming will lead to a decrease of about 11 percent in physical land in developing countries and that in time, as a result, also to a serious decrease in grain production. "Sixty-five developing countries, representing more than half of the developing world's population in 1995, will lose 280 million tons of potential grain production as a result of climate change," the organization said.
The impact of climate change on agriculture can increase the number of people at risk of hunger, especially in countries that are already experiencing low economic productivity and high levels of malnutrition. "In forty poor and developing countries, with a combined population of two billion ... productivity losses due to climate change may drastically increase the number of people suffering from malnutrition, a process that seriously hinders the fight against poverty and food insecurity," the report says.
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