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Floodwaters surround a home in the Chualar community of Monterey County, California, as the Salinas River overflows its banks, January 13, 2023
THE United Nations farm fund head has warned of a global food crisis and said China was an example of how to fight poverty.
Alvaro Lario, head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, said on Wednesday that climate change, a growing global population and volatile food and energy prices may push millions more vulnerable people into extreme poverty and hunger by 2030.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Lario warned that the ongoing food crisis is likely to continue this year.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
