Phys.Org: Residues of last season's maize crop (right), and irrigated maize, grown during Honduras' intense dry season. The poorest societies may be more able to adapt to the threat climate change poses to food supplies than their slightly richer peers, a new study suggests. You might assume getting richer would always make a country safer from drought and famine, but that turns out not to be the case. Instead, the very poorest countries seem to become more vulnerable in the early stages of development....
URL: http://phys.org/news/2012-06-highlights-climate-food-hotspots.html
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