PARIS: Natural and man-made disasters have caused $3.8 trillion in crop and livestock losses over 30 years, the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said on Friday.
Floods, droughts, insect infestations, storms, disease and war have caused about $123 billion per year in lost food production between 1991 and 2021, the equivalent of 5 percent of total production or enough to feed up to half a billion people per year, the FAO said in a report.
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