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Impoverished areas of Africa and Asia face severe crop losses from climate change in 20 years

Many of the world's poorest regions could face severe crop losses in the next two decades because of climate change, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University's Program on Food Security and the Environment. Their findings will be published in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Science.

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