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Food can be a politically volatile issue

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Concerns that climate change may affect food merit greater focus on how this could produce instability

Insect decline raises long-term food security risks

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The threat facing insects is hard to assess, but some species are clearly at risk and their loss could be devastating

Policy on ‘globesity’ epidemic must shed urban bias

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Approaches to tackling the rise in overweight and obese populations have tended to ignore alarming rural trends

Climate change GDP risk is high regardless of income

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A new study overrules past suggestions that poorer, tropical nations will lose more GDP to the impacts of climate change

Ireland's Brexit position is facing growing pressure

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IRELAND

The Irish government could be blamed at home for no-deal if concessions are not made on the backstop

Climate change poses many threats to the Middle East

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MIDDLE EAST

Areas around the Gulf are especially vulnerable to extreme weather, spiking heat, freshwater shortages and flooding