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Science 1 February 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5863, pp. 580 - 581
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154102
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Perspectives

CLIMATE:
Food Security Under Climate Change

Molly E. Brown1 Christopher C. Funk2

Food insecurity is likely to increase under climate change, unless early warning systems and development programs are used more effectively.

M. E. Brown is at Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Biospheric Sciences Branch, Code 614.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.USA. E-mail: molly.brown{at}nasa.gov

C. C. Funk is in the Climate Hazard Group, Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA. E-mail: chris{at}geog.ucsb.edu

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