Spread Of Seserts To Impact Food Supply

CHUQ

An interesting article and could presnt a major prob down the road.

Geneva - Spreading deserts and degradation of farm land due to climate change will pose a serious threat to food supplies for the world's surging population in coming years, a senior United Nations scientist warned on Friday.

MVK Sivakumar of the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the crunch could come in just over a decade as all continents see more weather-related disasters like heat waves, floods, landslides and wildfires.

"Should we worry about land being degraded? Yes," Sivakumar, who leads the WMO's agricultural meteorology division, told a news conference in Geneva.

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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

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In Africa, increasing climate variability would create major problems for farmers, who are likely to see their growing seasons getting shorter and crop yields cut, especially in areas near already arid and semi-arid regions.

I think Africa will be be the first area to show the biggest impact as it's already affecting them.
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CHUQ · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:27 am Post subject:

Since corn and wheat are the US biggest exports and the push for ethanol, this will not help the food stores. Prices are going up and supply going down=hungry people.
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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

Well, like another thread I started mentioned, these countries sometimes don't even want our help. I think they want people to starve.
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