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Asia's poorest to be worst hit by climate change: ADB [1]

Climate change threatens to bring food and water shortages to 1.6 billion people in South Asia, with the region's poorest likely to be worst hit, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said here Wednesday. New research commissioned by the ADB shows that if current climate trends persist until 2050, maize yields in South Asia will fall by 17 percent, wheat by 12 percent and rice by 10 percent.

Publication Date: 
03/09/2009
Business Recorder (Pakistan) [2]
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UNFCCC [3], Agriculture [4], Food Crops [5], Maize [6], Malnutrition [7], Drinking Water Scarcity [8], Health Effects [9], Climate Change [10], Global Warming [11], Natural Disasters [12], Droughts [13], Floods [14], Asian Development Bank (ADB) [15], Afghanistan [16], Bangladesh [17], Bhutan [18], Nepal [19], India [20], South Asia [21]

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