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UN links climate with hunger

By Javier Blas in Rome

Published: November 16 2009 10:24 | Last updated: November 16 2009 21:18

The world cannot achieve food security without first tackling global warming, the United Nations secretary-general said on Monday, warning that failure at next month’s international climate change negotiations would result in a rise in hunger.

The warning by Ban Ki-Moon at the start of a three-day UN world food summit in Rome came one day after Barack Obama, US president, backed European and UN views that the Copenhagen summit would not produce a legally-binding agreement to tackle global warming.

A woman stands on top of maize sent by Oxfam to Kenya where the crop failed because of a lack of rain

A woman stands on top of maize sent by Oxfam to Kenya where the crop failed because of a lack of rain

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