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Food diversity vital for adapting climate change

2015-01-20 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: Maintaining genetic diversity within the worlds food supply is vital to ensuring that humankind can preserve crop yields and adapt to climate change, however, a warming world places diversity at risk, a paper from the UNs Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned. The paper notes that agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture and forestry face the challenge of ensuring food security of an additional 3 billion people by 2050, which is estimated to require a 60% increase in global food production....

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