Climate change threatens China food production

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BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — Climate change could cut China's food production 10 percent by 2050, said an official report at a major UN conference here.

Given current conditions, the damage would hit China between 2030 and 2050.

The report, based on an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions carried out between 1990 and 1994, was presented at the 10th annual UN climate change conference, meeting here December 6-17.

Some 5,000 scientists, environmental activists and government officials from nearly 190 countries attended. A focus this year is preparing to implement the 1997 Kyoto accord, the world's most ambitious and complex environmental treaty.

The accord legally commits 39 industrial nations and territories to trim their output of six greenhouse gases --...