BEIJING – Climate change and a growing population mean China, which is already losing farmland to deserts and urban sprawl, could face a food shortfall of 100 million metric tons by 2030, a top weather official said.
“Global warming may cause the grain harvest to fall by 5 to 10 percent … by 2030,” the official China Daily quoted Zheng Guoguang, head of the State Meteorological Administration as saying.
Around the same time the country’s population is expected to reach a peak of 1.5 billion, up from the current 1.3 billion.
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