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Food shortages 'will cause riots'

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There will be food riots unless new ways to increase food production are found, a UK scientist warns. Professor Douglas Kell, of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, discusses why he believes £100m should be spent on research into how farmers can produce more food.

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