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redOrbit: The impact of global warming on food prices and hunger could be large over the next 20 years, according to a new Stanford University study. Researchers say that higher temperatures could significantly reduce yields of wheat, rice and maize – dietary staples for tens of millions of poor people who subsist on less than $1 a day. The resulting crop shortages would likely cause food prices to rise and drive many into poverty. But even as some people are hurt, others would be helped out of ......
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Global Warming May Hurt Some Poor Populations
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 21st, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation