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Food security, climate change and heath promotion: opening up the streams not just helping out down stream
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In July 2008, the G8 summit will consider the World's emerging food crisis as another 100 million people are pushed into poverty due to soaring food prices. This could mean ‘seven lost years’ in the fight against worldwide poverty, the World Bank President has said, as he called for a New Deal on Global Food Policy (Zoellick, 2008
). Already 2 billion people face the daily struggle to survive hunger and malnutrition. The causes are complex but there is little doubt that climate change has played a part and is likely to exacerbate the situation into the future. Ironically, the diversification of agricultural production into bio-fuels may be adding insult to injury. What should be the response of the health sector to this and where does health promotion sit in the mix?
The world's climate is clearly changing. Effects include heat waves, storms, flooding, droughts, sea level rise and air