Friday, June 3, 2011

Areas where food supplies could be worst hit by climate change



"We are starting to see much more clearly where the effects of climate change on agriculture could intensify hunger and poverty," said Patti Kristjanson, an agricultural economist with the CCAFS initiative that produced the report.




A leading climatologist told BBC News that agriculturalists had been slow to use global climate models to pinpoint regions most affected by rising temperatures.


By Jennifer Carpenter




Science reporter, BBC News


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