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Map courtesy mongabay.com

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Keeping up with demand

Crop yield potential

Droughts

Floods

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Developing nations:◦Smallest contributor◦Most vulnerable

Spread of diseases

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Agriculture Impacts

Health Impacts

Prices

Availability/Security

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Basu, Paroma. “Developing countries to suffer worst global warming impacts” Univeristy of Wisconsin press release. 18 November 2005. http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1118-wisc.html

FAO Newsroom. “Climate change likely to increase hunger.” FAO.org. 2008, http://www.fao.org/newsroom

Parry, Martin; Rosenzweig, Cynthia; Livermore, Matthew. “Climate change, global food supply, and risk of hunger..” Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society 360, 29 Nov 2005. 2125-2138

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