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by Staff Writers, Terra Daily.com
Paris (AFP) Nov 16, 2011
http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Climate_change_driving_world_towards_food_crunch_experts_999.html
Surging population growth and climate change are driving the planet towards episodes of worsening hunger which only an overhaul of the food system will fix, a panel of experts said on Wednesday.
"In the 21st century, as we are now we've got a major set of converging threats," said John Beddington, a British professor who chaired a 13-member nine-month probe.
"There's population growth, unsustainable resource use and big pressures on humanity to transform the way that we use food," Beddington said in a teleconference.
"But it is intimately linked to water issues and energy issues -- and of course with the major issue of climate change."
Beddington said that in 2007-8, a surge in food prices drove 100 million people into poverty, and 40 million more followed them in the 2010-2011 spike.