NEWS: Scientists will receive millions of pounds a year to develop food crops which will survive climate change.
Government’s throughout the world will spend £200million a year on research into developing more resilient crops and farming more successfully in trickier conditions – reports the Guardian.
The move is an attempt to avoid the threat of widespread hunger and economic disaster if global temperatures rise.
Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute, believes climate change would make it harder to reduce poverty and feed growing populations.
“The livelihoods of billions of people will be severely challenged as crop yields decline,” he said.
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