Global warming will exacerbate the food crisis
Oxfam warned in a
report today that the storms, droughts recent which led to the rise in food
prices is only the introduction of what will happen when bad exacerbated by
global warming.
The Associated Press
quoted the French Kelly Dent of the British non-governmental organization as
saying that this will increase the seriousness with high frequency Climate
change and the impact of agriculture ramifications of this.
Dent added that while the climatic phenomenon to rising prices, this translates shocked doubling the poorest, noting that they have to face higher prices for food at a time destroyed by natural disasters their homes and farms.
The FAO report noted a rise in the prices of British wheat, corn and sorghum by violent weather events that plunged tens of millions of people in poverty during the last 18 months.
According to the organization caused a heat wave in Russia and Ukraine in the last year, an increase in global wheat prices ranged between sixty and eighty percent in the three months as well as in April this year, these prices rose by 85 percent compared to what it was in June 2010.
During last July white maize prices rose in Somalia by 393 percent from the average in the last five years, while corn prices jumped in Ethiopia and Kenya Pencpti 119 and 116 percent respectively due to the drought that hit the Horn of Africa.
During the same period storms and hurricanes in the Southeast Asia to the high price of rice in Thailand, Vietnam and hovered proportion of this rise in September and October between 25 and 30 percent compared to what it was a year ago.
The World Bank reported in November of surveillance report issued by the global index of food prices still higher than in September last year by 19 percent.
This green fund which will provide a hundred billion dollars a year to the poorest countries from the year 2010 will be on the agenda of the Durban conference.
The Oxfam said that a group of experts on climate confirmed recently that global warming has accelerated the pace of heat waves and heavy rains unexpected breadth of these phenomena and called on States which will meet from today that significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions, and establish the fund allocated to help poor countries.
Dent added that while the climatic phenomenon to rising prices, this translates shocked doubling the poorest, noting that they have to face higher prices for food at a time destroyed by natural disasters their homes and farms.
The FAO report noted a rise in the prices of British wheat, corn and sorghum by violent weather events that plunged tens of millions of people in poverty during the last 18 months.
According to the organization caused a heat wave in Russia and Ukraine in the last year, an increase in global wheat prices ranged between sixty and eighty percent in the three months as well as in April this year, these prices rose by 85 percent compared to what it was in June 2010.
During last July white maize prices rose in Somalia by 393 percent from the average in the last five years, while corn prices jumped in Ethiopia and Kenya Pencpti 119 and 116 percent respectively due to the drought that hit the Horn of Africa.
During the same period storms and hurricanes in the Southeast Asia to the high price of rice in Thailand, Vietnam and hovered proportion of this rise in September and October between 25 and 30 percent compared to what it was a year ago.
The World Bank reported in November of surveillance report issued by the global index of food prices still higher than in September last year by 19 percent.
This green fund which will provide a hundred billion dollars a year to the poorest countries from the year 2010 will be on the agenda of the Durban conference.
The Oxfam said that a group of experts on climate confirmed recently that global warming has accelerated the pace of heat waves and heavy rains unexpected breadth of these phenomena and called on States which will meet from today that significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions, and establish the fund allocated to help poor countries.
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