Chai! Climate Change ‘Set To Fuel Global Food Crisis’
Global food shortages will become three times more likely as a result of
climate change according to a report by a joint US-British taskforce,
which warned that the international community needs to be ready to
respond to potentially dramatic future rises in prices. Aljazeera
reports:
Food shortages, market volatility and price spikes are likely to occur at an exponentially
higher rate of every 30 years by 2040, said the Taskforce on Extreme
Weather and Global Food System Resilience.
With the world’s
population set to rise to nine billion by 2050 from 7.3 billion today,
food production will need to increase by more than 60 percent and
climate-linked market disruptions could lead to civil unrest, the
report, published on Friday, said.
“The climate is changing
and weather records are being broken all the time,” said David King, the
UK foreign minister’s Special Representative for Climate Change. “The
risks of an event are growing, and it could be unprecedented in scale
and extent.” Globalisation and new technologies have made the world’s
food system more efficient but it has also become less resilient to
risks, said King.
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