U.N. expert predicts malnutrition for 600 million by 2080 because of climate change

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U.N. expert is warning that more extreme weather, higher temperatures, floods, droughts and rising sea levels linked to climate change are threatening people's access to food over the long term.

U.N. special rapporteur
 on "the right to food,"
Hilal Elver.

Hilal Elver, the U.N. special rapporteur on "the right to food," predicts the negative impact from climate change on agriculture could subject another 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080.

In a statement on Tuesday before a U.N. climate conference in Paris starting Nov. 30, she recommended a shift from large-scale, industrial agriculture to "agro-ecology" that supports the local food movement, small-scale farmers and the environment.

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