Food and climate crises ‘linked’

Climate change will worsen the world’s food crisis, the UN has forecast.

Food and global warming are interconnected, said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
“They are not competing with each other on the international agenda.”

“It is absolutely right that the food issue is receiving a lot of attention. That is a human crisis that’s out there right now,” Mr De Boer said.

But in the long term, climate change will bring still higher food prices, worsening water problems and more drought. Ignoring the issue “will get you into deeper trouble down the road,” he said.

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