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Malnutrition Increases in South Asia: Cut Climate Change To Cut Hunger!

30.05.2012

According to “Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition”, a joint report by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), malnutrition is worsening in developing countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and India because of the impacts of climate change - particularly on water resources, a key input for producing food for more than one billion people in the region. Climate change and rising temperatures have now badly disturbed food production patterns and have deepened food insecurity. Besides climate change and rising demand for bioenergy, other factors can hamper efforts to reduce malnutrition, such as widespread land degradation, scarcity of fresh water resources and structural shifts in the food and agricultural systems.

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