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| 17th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development – Side Event: Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security |
| 6 May 2009 |
| Thomas Rosswall |
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The Challenge
- Climate change will worsen the living conditions of farmers, fishers and forest-dependent people who are already vulnerable and food insecure.
- Hunger and malnutrition will increase.
- Rural communities ... face an immediate and ever-growing risk of increased crop failure (and) loss of livestock ...
- Poor people will be at risk of food insecurity ...
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