Climate Change & The Need for Alternative Crops

The World Bank estimates that 925 million people are hungry in the world today. The figure has been rising since the mid 1990's onwards, due to rising food prices, a succession of economic crises and a neglect of agricultural innovation, especially relevant to the poor.

Global Food security expert and CEO of Crops for the Future Research Centre, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali, takes a look at the increasingly possible issue of a food shortage crisis and what needs to be done to avoid it.