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Climate Change "Brings Uncertainties" to Agriculture, Which Becomes Problem and Solution

Diplomatic wrangling this week will make the headlines in the fight against climate change, but experts say a bigger but largely unseen battle is set to unfold on the world's farms.

Agriculture holds the double distinction of being highly vulnerable to climate change but also offering a solution to the problem, they say.

In a report ahead of the November 7-18 UN climate talks in Marrakesh, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) had a blunt warning about the risks to the food supply from drought, flood, soil depletion, desertification and rising demand.

"There is no doubt climate change affects food security," the agency's chief, Jose Graziano da Silva, said.

Ollivier Girard/CIFOR

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