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[Repeated from Friday 9am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: Climate – Hunger World, food riots home and abroad. The forecast is record-breaking heat, wildfires in the West and extreme rainfall mayhem across the world. Maybe the strongest El Niño in 150 years. We explore a return to mass famine - including real hunger in the UK and America. Food riots in the next few years are possible. Aled Jones, Director, Global Sustainability Institute, Cambridge on UK food riots past and future. American scientist Joshua Elliot warns risk of American "food shock".  Will the monsoons that feed a billion people fail? Gayatri Kathayat reports from India. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.

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