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Global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said. A warmer world will push food prices higher, trigger “hotspots of hunger” among the world’s poorest people, and put the crunch on Western delights like fine wine and robust coffee, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) concluded in a 32-volume report issued on March 31 2014.“We’re facing the spectre of reduced yields in some of the key crops that feed humanity,” panel chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri said in a press conference after releasing the report.