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 [1]