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Agence France-PresseExpert says rising sea levels pose threat to riceby 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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