Study Predicts Large Disparities in Access to Food, Water and Energy in 2050
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Study predicts large disparities in access to food, water and energy in 2050
How will global access to food, water and energy evolve in coming decades? A new study coauthored by MIT researchers suggests the answers could be very different depending on region, resource and income.
Study predicts large disparities in access to food, water, and energy in 2050
A new study projects how people’s access to food, water, and energy may change in the future, in response to many different variables. In many regions, people in lower-income groups will likely face even greater resource insecurity than they do today.
"How will access to food, water and energy be transformed in the next decades? A new study by MIT researchers suggests that responses could be very varied, depending on region, resources and revenues. Dramatic cost differences between rich and poor in 2050 based on extended models of different resource scenarios [...]
A modeling of MIT warns that access to food, water and energy could diverge dramatically according to the region and income level in 2050. In some scenarios, Africa’s poorest households would spend almost half of their income buying food, while other populations would face particularly severe energy pressure.
Covered gap: Regional averages can mask how much poorer population groups will be burdened by food and household energy in the future. In model calculations for 2050, food in southern Africa takes 49.6 percent of the median income for the lowest income, and 5.5 percent for the richest ten percent. However, the scenarios are not a prognosis of the most likely future course. Cambridge [...] The contribution Basic needs could become the enormous bu…
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