Climate change and World Hunger
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Developing nations will be most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change according to several sources. Climate change is expected to reduce crop yields, increase the spread of diseases, and cause more frequent droughts and floods in developing countries. This could lead to increased hunger, health problems, and food price volatility globally.
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ethnic stripe, demanding nothing more of the eater than opening the package and waiting for the
microwave to chirp. Considered in the long sweep of human history, in which getting food dominated
not just daily life but economic and political life as well, having to worry about food as little as we do,
or did, seems almost a kind of dream.
The dream that the age-old “food problem” had been largely solved for most Americans was sustained
by the tremendous postwar increases in the productivity of American farmers, made possible by cheap
fossil fuel (the key ingredient in both chemical fertilizers and pesticides) and changes in agricultural
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Editor's Notes
- The topic for today’s presentation is to examine how Global Climate change is affecting the world around us. Results of the worldwide increase in temperature will affect many aspects of human life—among them contributing to the world hunger program. Two of the biggest impacts that global climate change are having in our world are on agriculture and human wellness.