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Conflict and climate change lead to rise in global hunger

Submitted by ksnook on October 5, 2017 - 2:09pm

Evan FraserGlobal hunger has dropped each year between 2005 and 2016 and development officials were considering that we could be on our way to eradicating hunger. However, this year showed a 4.5 per cent increase in those experiencing daily hunger, which is an increase of 38 million people. The increase is because of conflict and climate change. 

Read more from Conflict and climate change lead to rise in global hunger [1], by CSAHS Professor and the Director of the Arrell Food Institute [2] at the University of Guelph, Evan Fraser.

Keywords: 
global hunger [3]
Evan Fraser [4]
sustainability [5]
food security [6]
geography [7]
International Development [8]

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[1] https://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/news/articles/climate-and-environment/conflict-and-climate-change-lead-to-a-rise-in-global-hunger/87135/ [2] https://arrellfoodinstitute.ca/ [3] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/global-hunger [4] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/evan-fraser [5] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/sustainability [6] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/food-security [7] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/geography [8] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/international-development