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Climate change may hit developing countries the hardest, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports, with two billion people in some 40 countries experiencing food shortages. Climate change will have the most dramatic effects in regions where the growing season is already short and the land only marginally farmable. Developing countries could experience production losses totaling $56 billion. In addition, warming trends worldwide may increase disease in plants, animals and humans. Those eking out a subsistence living would be the most vunerable.

Source: FAO, www.fao.org

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 | Mar 30, 2007 04:39 PM | 1 comments
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This is an astute
Submitted by griercamille on May 5, 2007 - 10:13am.
This is an astute observation and with that knwledge should come some planning. If you have the voice or the strenght then one could question the government in a nonviolent and professionaal manner or actually we should find out from disaster management what are they doing to prepare for incidents of wide spread droughts. Are those plans the best plans. Will they be effective and can they last for the lenght of time the droughts may last
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