A high-level international panel has announced its
recommendations for achieving food security while addressing the
effects of climate change. The recommendations from the
Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change
released Wednesday come in advance of the U.N. climate change
conference this month in Durban, South Africa. The panel
includes scientists from 13 countries who are experts in
agriculture, climate, economics, trade, nutrition and ecology.
It spent the past year analyzing many climate studies – a year
that included climbing food prices, humanitarian disasters and
political unrest -- all of which, it says, threaten food
security. The panel says climate change will only make things
worse. “The current situation is just unacceptable. A large
portion of the human population is food insecure and were
vulnerable to food insecurity. A billion people or so go hungry
and that is genuine poverty. And something on the order of
another billion people don’t have appropriate nutrition. It’s
seen and