4th IDSAsr International Seminar
Seminar - India
THE WATER ENERGY AND FOOD SECURITY
The food price crisis of 2008 has led to the re-emergence of debates about global food security and its impact on prospects for achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG): to end poverty and hunger. On top of a number of shorter-term triggers leading to volatile food prices, the longer-term negative impacts of climate change need to be taken very seriously. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warns that the progress in human development achieved over the last decade may be slowed down or even reversed by climate change, as new threats emerge to water and food security, agricultural production and access, and nutrition and public health. The impacts of climate change – sea level rise, droughts, heat waves, floods and rainfall variation – could, by 2030, push another 600 million people into malnutrition and increase the number of people facing water scarcity by 1.8 billion (UNDP 2008).
(Courtesy of indiawaterportal.org)
Fri, Nov 02, 2012 - Sun, Nov 04, 2012
Conference hall of Guru Nanak Dev University
GT Road, Amritsar-143005, Amritsar, India
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