India, Feb. 13 -- Rising displacement due to disasters fuelling more conflicts

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has said that climate change would push 100 million people into the abyss of poverty by 2030. Close to half of these would be due to climate change's impacts on agriculture.

Global development and government representatives from across the world made an appeal to urgently spend more on rural development to avoid a catastrophic situation arising out of the climate emergency during IFAD's 43 rd Governing Council meeting in Rome.

"Climate change's impacts on agriculture are exacerbating existing conflicts and have the potential to cause new conflicts around the world as resources become more limited," E...