Climate change and food security in the context of the Cancun agreements

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Submitted by susan on Thu, 2011-03-31 09:30

"Potentially catastrophic" impacts on food production from slow-onset climate changes are expected to increasingly hit the developing world in the future and action is needed now to prepare for those anticipated impacts, FAO warned in a submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Climate Change
Food Security
Climate Impacts
Developing Countries
UNFCCC
Food Prices
Climate Adaptation
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foodsecurity_cc2011.pdf
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Climate Change
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FAO
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http://foris.fao.org/meetings/download/_2011/sixteenth_session_of_the_ad_hoc_working_group_on_f/misc_documents/fao_submission_foodsecurity_cc2011.pdf
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Publication Date: 
31/03/2011