Warsaw - Day 7: World 'neglects climate impact on food' - Climate News Network
Food security is a neglected area of efforts to tackle climate change say scientists, who think politicians are failing to take the problem seriously.
CGIAR Climate's insight:
Global leaders are failing to respond to the threat posed by climate change to the growing challenge of feeding the world, a leading agricultural researcher says.
They do not treat the problem seriously, and they are ignoring the warnings of science about what is liable to happen.
Yet, she says, there is much more evidence available than there was a few years ago, and the future it describes is cause for great concern.
The criticism comes from Dr Sonja Vermeulen, Head of Research at the CGIAR Research programme on climate change, agriculture and food security (CCAFS).
She was speaking to the Climate News Network as the UN climate negotiations – the 19th conference of the parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 19 – got under way in the Polish capital, Warsaw.