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2021-07-26
UN chief: World hunger worsened by climate change, conflict
The gathering was called to help prepare for a UN food systems summit to be held in September in New York.
The gathering was called to help prepare for a UN food systems summit to be held in September in New York.
Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform food systems to speed up sustainable development.
ROME (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that climate change and conflict are both a consequence and a driver of poverty, income inequality and food prices. Guterres also told a meeting in Rome that the world’s food system generates a third of all greenhouse gas emissions.