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Posted Tue Feb 24 2009: from SciDev.net:
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China's water deficit 'will create food shortage' http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1235514658
A leading climate change expert has warned that water shortage is the greatest threat to China's agricultural sector this century, amid a drought across the country.
As demand for water continues to rise and less is available for agriculture, "China will see a food shortfall of 5-10 per cent -- a disastrous outcome in a country of 1.3 billion people -- unless effective and timely measures are taken," said Lin Erda, one of China's top climate change experts and leader of a joint China-UK project, 'Impacts of Climate Change on Chinese Agriculture'.... When the current episode of drought reached its peak in early February it was affecting 1.6 million hectares of farmland in at least 12 provinces in northern China -- considered the country's breadbasket. Thanks to snow and rainfall last week the affected area has dropped to 497,000 hectares across eight provinces.
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Very Scary Tags: food crisis, weather extremes, water issues
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Duane says: "Somehow I think the food shortage is going to cause someo water deficits as well."
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Oh good... the breadbasket's only 1/3 empty.
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