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Surge in climate change-related disasters poses growing threat to food security
2015-11-28 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FAO: Droughts, floods, storms and other disasters triggered by climate change have risen in frequency and severity over the last three decades, increasing the damage caused to the agricultural sectors of many developing countries and putting them at risk of growing food insecurity, FAO warned in a new report released today ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris. Worldwide, between 2003 and 2013 - the period analyzed in the study - the average annual number of disasters...
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