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is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United says more than eight hundred fifty million people do have enough food. For this year's World Food Day last week, VOA reporters examined the current causes of . Poverty, disease and conflict have historically threatened food security. , rising food prices and issues like climate change add these threats. A new study warns of future losses world food production because of crop damage from changes the weather. William Cline wrote the study from the for Global Development in Washington. He says countries closest the equator will be hardest hit. For example, he that if nothing is done, global warming could cut food production by up to forty percent by the twenty eighty. Africa and Latin America could lose twenty or more. Governments concerned about global warming and dependence oil are investing in biofuels from corn and other . But Lester Brown at the Earth Policy Institute in says demand for fuel crops is pushing up food . He says the world's eight hundred sixty million automobile are now in direct competition with the two billion people. This comes as grain supplies are at their level in years. Experts see a number of reasons. include not enough investment in agricultural technology. A loss farmland to development. Droughts and floods made worse by change. And, growing competition for water. Population growth also a greater demand on food supplies. The United Nations a population of more than eight billion by the twenty thirty. By that time, demand for animal products double, led by growing economies like China and India. Le Gal of the World Bank says climate change the globalization of trade raise the risk of spreading diseases. Experts say most countries are not ready for health crisis caused by a disease jumping to humans. , finally, they say the growing population of cities is to the world's hunger problem. Danielle Nierenberg at the Institute in Washington says the poor can spend fifty eighty percent of their money on food. She points that city people do not have farm animals to in times of need. So they are especially threatened prices go up. And that's the VOA Special English Report, written by Jill Moss.

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