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Global food shortages will become three times more likely as a result of climate change according to a report by a joint US-British taskforce, which warned that the international community needs to be ready to respond to potentially dramatic future rises in prices.
Food shortages, market volatility and price spikes are likely to occur at an exponentially higher rate of every 30 years by 2040, said the Taskforce on Extreme Weather and Global Food System Resilience. With the world's population set to rise to nine billion by 2050 from 7.3 billion today, food production will need to increase by more than 60% and climate-linked market disruptions could lead to civil unrest, the report, published on Friday, said.
