Policy seminar: FAO Food Security and Nutrition Report explores growing threats of climate change
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Global hunger and undernourishment are rising, and climate change impacts such as frequent droughts are among the most challenging contributors to the increase, said Marco Sanchez Cantillo, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) deputy director for agricultural development economics, at an Oct. 10 eventexploring key findings of FAO’s 2018 report, The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI).
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