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Global food output may be hurt as climate change brings more extreme weather over the next decade, with China likely set for harsher droughts and North America getting heavier rain, said the World Meteorological Organization.
“Extreme events will become more intense in the future, especially the heat waves and extreme precipitations,” Omar Baddour, a division chief at the United Nations’ agency. “That, combined with less rainfall in some regions like the Mediterranean region and China, will affect crop production and agriculture.”
May 30, 2011 at 17:56