Global Warming Can Trigger Hunger in India
August 16th, 2007
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Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has warned that climate change can lead to decrease in food production in India,
Climate change is likely to trigger a “risk of hunger” in India by affecting cereal production by as much as 18% because of floods and droughts, a UN agency has warned.Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said India could lose as much as 125 million tonnes of its rainfed cereal production.
“Rainfed agriculture in marginal areas in semi-arid and sub-humid regions is mostly at risk,” an FAO statement quoted Director-General Jacques Diouf as saying.[link]
Interestingly enough, global warming will actually increase production in industrialized countries. The United States is already the world’s largest exporter, global warming will further help increase its share. Or will ?
As economists David Piemental and Mario Giampetro had concluded in their Food, Land, Population, and the US economy, by 2050, if the current level of growth in US population is maintained, even America will find it difficult to feed its population which will have a huge impact on global food security. Their report came out in 1994 when the global warming debate was largely restricted to avant-garde environmentalists.
And then there is the problem of bio-fuels.
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