This left Pakistan with too much to do and as rain clouds gathered in the East, they slipped further and further behind on Duckworth-Lewis.

BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

"No rain, and too much fighting, " was how one woman, holding another feverish child, summed it up.

BBC: Condition of Somali refugees in Kenya worsening

In my lifetime there have been a large number of predicted nutritional apocalypses, caused by overpopulation, lack of biological diversity in our food supply, genetic engineering run amok, acid rain, too little ozone, too much ozone and, finally, global warming.

FORBES: Global Warming And Global Food Security