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Climate change making food crops less nutritious

Climate change making food crops less nutritious

by The Daily Eye Team May 12 2014, 12:14 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 43 secs

Rising carbon dioxide emissions are set to make the world?s staple food crops less nutritious, according to new scientific research, worsening the serious ill health already suffered by billions of malnourished people. The surprise consequence of fossil fuel burning is linked directly to the rise in CO levels which, unlike some of the predicted impacts of climate change, are undisputed. The field trials of wheat, rice, maize and soybeans showed that higher CO levels significantly reduced the levels of the essential nutrients iron and zinc, as well as cutting protein levels. ?We found rising levels of CO are affecting human nutrition by reducing levels of very important nutrients in important food crops,? said Prof Samuel Myers, an environmental health expert at Harvard University, Boston, and lead author of the study. ?From a health viewpoint, iron and zinc are hugely important.?

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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