On February 19th, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) program PM aired a segment on a new United Nations report examining the global food crisis.
In the piece, ABC interviewed food policy experts about the causal factors of the recent food crisis, including population growth, urbanization, climate change, and the development of biofuels. The experts are also asked to assess the grim projections made within the report, released by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and its suggestions for solving the crisis.
ABC posted this full transcript of the segement.
A PDF of the full UNEP report, entitled The Environmental Food Crisis: Environment’s Role in Averting Future Food Crises, can be found here.
What do you think about what the experts had to say in the ABC segement? Share your thoughts and questions below.
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Posted by Sara Chupein
