World To Be 2.4 Degrees Warmer by 2020, India To Be Hit The Hardest

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 31 No. 1, January 2011
 
The rising temperatures will adversely affect the world's food production and India would be the hardest hit, according to the analysis by the Universal Ecological Fund (FEU-US), the US subsidiary of FEU founded in Argentina in 1990. The report titled 'The Food Gap -- The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective' predicted that crop yield in India, the second largest world producer of rice and wheat, would fall up to 30 per cent by the end of this decade. Read the full story here.
 
Source: The Economic Times, Washington 

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