Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) - Future Climate Change 'Hotspots' and Food Insecurity

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March 18, 2012

Climate Change

A new study has matched future climate change 'hotspots' with regions already suffering chronic food problems to identify highly vulnerable populations, chiefly in Africa and South Asia, but potentially in China and Latin America as well, where in less than forty years, the prospect of shorter, hotter or drier growing seasons could imperil hundreds of millions of already impoverished people.

To download the report (PDF), "Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics" please click here