How Do We Prevent a Food Crisis in the Midst of Climate Change?
Kim, Kunmin; Tak, Hyunwoo | November 2018
Abstract
The current global warming trends are extremely likely to be the result of human social and economic activity since the middle of the 20th century (NASA 2018). Evidence of rapid climate change varies and includes global average temperature increases, seawater temperature increases, ice sheet loss, glacier retreats, snowfall reduction, rising sea levels, the retreat of Arctic sea ice, and extreme events. In particular, the impacts of extreme events due to climate change, such as droughts, floods, and typhoons, along with the average temperature rise due to global warming, are especially important for considerations surrounding food security. Indeed, climate change will have far-reaching influences on crop, livestock, and fisheries production and will change the prevalence of crop pests (Campbell et al. 2016). As a consequence of the vast impact of increasing climate change on food production systems, food security might be threatened (Islam and Wong 2017). The World Bank (2017) reported that food shortages due to drought are severe enough to affect 80 million people per day. Currently, 400 extreme weather events occur on average each year, and global climate change continuously increases climate hazards. These effects are more severe in poor countries and result in problems including housing shortages, poverty, and famine (Oxfam 2018). Climate change, in particular, could give rise to food crises, which would intensify poverty.
Citation
Kim, Kunmin; Tak, Hyunwoo. 2018. How Do We Prevent a Food Crisis in the Midst of Climate Change?. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9357. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Agriculture
Women in agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
Commercial agriculture
Climate
Climate change
Climate impacts assessment
Global climate change
Investment climates
Agricultural statistics
Sustainable development
Agribusiness
Agricultural trade
Agricultural economy
Agricultural product marketing
Agricultural products
Climatic change
Climatic influence
Climatic
Climatology
Global commons
Ozone depletion
Investment analysis
Investment bank
Investment dispute
Investment policy
Investment return
Forestry
Environmental management
Food Security
Agricultural information network
Agricultural processing industry
New agricultural enterprise
Produce trade
Export
Import
International competition
Commercial policy
International trade
Economic policy
Foreign investment
Ratio analysis
Risk return relationship
Wind
Ozone layer
Investment
Bank and banking
Speculation
Climate change mitigation
Global temperature change
Precipitation anomaly
Precipitation variability
Goat farming
Green Revolution
Harvesting
Herb farming
Hill farming
Land capability for agriculture
Livestock
Traditional farming
Forests and forestry
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