Rising food prices are tightening the squeeze on populations already struggling to buy adequate food, demanding radical reform of the global food system, Oxfam has warned.
Senior doctors today published a report warning that
climate change
is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century.
Rising global temperatures would have a catastrophic effect on human health,
the doctors said, and patterns of infection would change, with insect-borne
diseases such as malaria and dengue fever spreading more easily.
Almost a billion people go hungry each day after food price rises pushed 40 million more people around the world into the ranks of the undernourished, the UN food agency reported yesterday.