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The perfect storm
Author(s) -
Nelson Gerald C.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00404.x
Subject(s) - storm , development economics , political science , agricultural economics , economic growth , economic history , geography , history , economics , meteorology
When politicians fail to agree, very often it is the poorest who suffer most. More than 25 million additional children could go hungry through the failure of Copenhagen, says Gerald C. Nelson of the International Food Policy Research Institute. As crop yields decline, the calories available per person in sub‐Saharan Africa will decline by 21%.