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    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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    Kim, Kunmin
    Tak, Hyunwoo
    Theme
    Climate
    Agriculture
     
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