Food Security: Middle East Wars Could Put World’s Food Security at Risk

Sep 8, 2014 | Steve Connor, The Independent
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Millions of people could in future face starvation as an indirect result of the violent turmoil in the Middle East which has the highest concentration of wild crop plants needed to produce new food varieties, scientists said.

Civil wars raging in Syria and Iraq threaten future food resources because of the crucial role the region plays as the home of the wild plants continually needed to improve the genetic quality of domesticated crops.