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The environmental food crisis: the environment's role in averting future food crises

A UNEP rapid response assessment

Reports & Research
September, 2010
Global
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
food security
intensive land use
poverty
rural development
The surge in food prices in the last years, following a century of decline, has been the most marked of the past century in its magnitude, duration and the number of commodity groups whose prices have increased. The ensuing crisis has resulted in a 50–200% increase in selected commodity prices, driven 110 million people into poverty and added 44 million more to the undernourished.

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