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Climate change, air pollution may increase risk of malnutrition
2014-07-29 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: The world will need 50 percent more food by 2050 due to both an increasing population and a shift toward a more Westernized diet in developing countries. But as our need for food rises, our ability to produce that food may be lowered by climate and air quality changes, according a to a study just published in Nature Climate Change. Researchers from MIT and Colorado State University found that if everything else stays as it is today, by 2050 global warming may reduce world crop yields by about 10...
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Malnutrition a threat with use climate-resilient crops, scientists say
2014-07-01 03:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As farmers move toward growing crops designed to meet growing world demand for food and stand up to tougher climate conditions, they may inadvertently be worsening malnutrition, scientists say. Such "hidden hunger" stems from a lack of vitamins and minerals in some crops that replace staple favourites, and a narrowing of the range of foods eaten. "When I was young, we used to feed on amaranth vegetables, guava fruits, wild berries, jackfruits and many other crops that used to grow wild in our...
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Higher Food Prices Can Help to End Hunger, Malnutrition and Food Waste
2014-06-25 09:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The choice of foods displayed on supermarket shelves can be quite bewildering. This abundance encourages us to take it for granted that we will always be able to buy the food we want at affordable prices. Any customers who give thought to how and where all the different foods are produced and end up in their shopping trolleys will start to uncover a rather disturbing situation. They will find that in most countries, people working at all levels in the food system - in supermarkets, in meat...
Massive malnutrition may come climate change
2014-06-22 00:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Israel21c: Israelis were part of a multicenter study that tried to understand the potentially devastating effects of climate change on the worlds poor and hungry, and the crops they eat for basic sustenance. Their conclusions paint a grim picture. Writing about their results in Nature, one of the worlds most prominent science journals, the study leaders predict that as climate change progresses, crops grown in the second part of this century will become hollow. There will be lower levels of iron, protein...
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Drop global malnutrition depends ag productivity, climate change
2014-06-15 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Farm and Dairy: Global malnutrition could fall 84 percent by the year 2050 as incomes in developing countries grow -- but only if agricultural productivity continues to improve and climate change does not severely damage agriculture, Purdue University researchers say. The prevalence and severity of global malnutrition could drop significantly by 2050, particularly in the poorest regions of the world, said Thomas Hertel, distinguished professor of Agricultural Economics. But if productivity does not grow,...
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