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Meat drying, Nepal
Year:
2010
Taken by:
Lawrence Hislop
By 2050, as projected by FAO, global cereal
production needs to be around 3000 million tonnes in order
to meet demand. However, some estimates suggest that due
to environmental degradation in the watersheds, floods, and
reduced water flow due to climate change in the Hindu KushHimalayas, cereal production in Asia could become 10% to
30% lower than projected demand, corresponding to a 1.7–5%
global reduction in cereal production (Nellemann and Kaltenborn, 2009; UNEP, 2009). While we do not at this stage have
any good projections, the numbers do reveal how important
irrigation water and flood control is in the Hindu KushHimalayas region for global food security (UNEP, 2009)
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