Expert says rising sea levels pose threat to rice - AFP

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Expert says rising sea levels pose threat to rice

by Cecil Morella
Mon Jul 9, 7:12 AM ET

MANILA (AFP) - Rising sea levels triggered by climate change
pose an "ominous" threat to some of the world's most productive
rice-growing areas, the International Rice Research Institute
has warned.

The Philippines-based institution is devoting fresh efforts to
mitigating the coming threat, but senior climate scientist Reiner
Wassman said adequate funding had yet to materialise.

"Some of Asia's most important rice-growing areas are located
in low-lying deltas, which play a vital role in regional food
security and supplying export markets," Wassman told the IRRI
magazine Rice Today.

"With Vietnam so dependent on rice grown in and around low-lying
river deltas, the implications of a sea-level rise are ominous
indeed."

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070709/sc_afp/environmentclimaterice_070709111259

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Uncle Ben is up to his ass in water

and needs help, quick!

[Cooley Hurd]

2. The famine caused by this will be tremendous...

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