To prevent hunger, humans need to increase investment in agriculture and water management infrastructure by billions of dollars each year (Finance Sina)

Finance Sina (China) published an article about findings from IFPRI in the Food Policy Report, Climate change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system, that found in order to prevent the effects of climate change from causing another 78 million people to fall into prolonged hunger by 2050, global agricultural research and development will be promoted between 2015 and 2050. The annual investment will need to increase by US$2 billion (or 120%).  “Our model shows that increasing investment in the agricultural sector can compensate for the impact of climate change on the number of hungry people in the world. However, some regions are more vulnerable than others, especially sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia,” stated IFPRI senior scientist and the lead author of the study, Timothy Sulser. He added, “Even in the absence of climate change, high population growth combined with low-income growth is expected to increase hunger rates in these areas. This will require targeted investment to reverse these trends.”  Also published in CN Beta (China)