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Scots scientists warn soaring food prices could leave 100million starving
09.01.2023 - 19:36 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A surge in farming costs along with the effects of climate change could leave an extra 100million people starving around the world, a study by Scots scientists found. Researchers at Edinburgh University said up to a million more people could die in the coming decades due to malnutrition - chiefly due to high fertiliser prices.
They said the cost of fertilising crops had gone up threefold since 2021 - which could drive food prices 80 per cent higher than they were then. Using computer modelling, the study found surging energy and fertiliser prices will have by far the greatest impact on food security in future.
The war in Ukraine has led to the blockade of millions of tonnes of wheat, barley and corn - but reduced food exports from the region are less of a driver of food price rises than feared, the modelling indicated.
Dr Peter Alexander, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, who led the study, said: "This could be the end of an era of cheap food. While almost everyone will feel the effects of that on their weekly shop, it's the poorest people in society, who may already struggle to afford enough healthy food, who will be hit hardest.”
He added: "While fertiliser prices are coming down from the peaks of earlier this year, they remain high and this may still feed through to continued high food price inflation in 2023. More needs to be done to break the link between higher food prices and harm to human health and the environment."
The findings suggest there could be up to one million additional deaths and more than 100 million people undernourished if high fertiliser prices continue, with most fatality increases in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East. Modelling estimates that sharp
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