Dhaka, May 7 -- Food is fundamental to the efforts to tackle climate change, according to a scientist who has spent decades tracing the interactions between global warming and what people eat.

Cynthia Rosenzweig, head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was Thursday awarded the prestigious World Food Prize for her research.

That includes stark warnings about the potential effect climate change will have on food, AFP reports.

Her comments to AFP have been slightly edited:

- How do food systems drive climate change?

Climate change cannot be restrained without attention to greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Our work, among others, shows that those food system emissions are approximately one...