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Delegates left Rome without consensus on key issues such as the increased demand for crops to produce biofuels and the impact on world food prices, and there is also no agreement on the lifting of trade barriers and the issue of farm subsidies, officials said.
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The expanding world population and the on-going switch towards consumption of meat and dairy produce as incomes rise are already putting pressure on freshwater supplies, which increased growing of biofuel crops could exacerbate.
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Certainly the warm period increased the productivity of crops which led to an increase in population, the subsequent cooling (and more importantly, change in rainfall patterns) reduced agricultural productivity and led to hunger and starvation.
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