In a recent interview to The Hindu,(www.thehindu.com) Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), said that the fund has evidence to the effect that by 2025 crop yields will decrease by 20 to 40 % in several parts of the world due to global warming. Large parts of land will become useless for agriculture, and new diseases and pests will come up. He waned that unless we develop new varieties of crops that can withstand extremes of weather, we will have difficulty in feeding the world population. Scarcity of water resources will be another eventuality of the climate change.
Dr. Nwanze hoped that at least a ‘political accord’ will be reached at the climate meet at
(Source: ‘Climate change threat is very real, says IFAD Chief’ Gargi Parsai, The Hindu, November 30, 2009)
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