According to the non-profit Universal Ecological Fund, the world will be faced with food shortages by 2020 if, as a UN-backed panel has predicted, global temperatures rise to a level 2.4 degrees Celsius above those in pre-industrial times. The group's analysis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) data has concluded that population growth and warmer temperatures will have a dramatic impact on food production and prices, if current trends continue.
