Climate change negatively affects all areas of food security: availability and production, access, and stability.
Food availability may be reduced by negative climate change impacts on productivity of crops, livestock and fish, due, for instance, to increases in temperature and changes in rainfall patterns. As the weather changes and affects crop production, this will clearly result in a decrease of vegetables, fruits, etc., being grown and distributed to the population. Also, as crops fail to grow, livestock will not be able to eat these crops either, thus decreasing the livestock population. Also, dramatic storms and weather changes as a result of climate change can also pose as a threat to livestock. Finally, climate change has a huge impact on fish, which lots of people do not realize. New research suggests that climate change could wipe out 60% of all fish species. If average global temperatures rise by five degrees Celsius, that could mean almost two-thirds of global fish species could be eradicated by year 2100. This would pose as a huge threat to food insecurity all across the world.
Next up, the access to food will be harmed as a result of climate change. Obviously, climate change reduces the amount of food available, but it also hurts peoples’ chances of access to food. Climate change brings unpredictable weather activity, such as dramatic storms, which would limit one’s access to a nearby supermarket, restaurant, food bank, etc. For instance, after a major hurricane or flooding, people have no way to leave their homes and travel to a nearby area that gives away food, thus increasing the amount of hungry people. Also, these storms could damage crop production on farms. As climate change rises the temperatures, this will also increase the need for more gas energy to power air conditioning in homes, which will increase the gas prices, which will, finally, decrease the amount of people going to get food.
Finally, climate change will not help to keep food sources stable. With climate change comes unpredictable weather patterns that will leave us periods with an abundance of food, and periods will little to no food.
Overall, climate change is coming, whether we like it or not, and it will have an enormous affect on food insecurity across the globe.
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