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Climate change impact on food security

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/9920/
 
Title Climate change impact on food security
 
Creator Jaba, J
Sharma, H C
 
Subject Entomology
Climate change
Food Security
 
Description To end of hunger and malnutrition and achieve food security and improve nutrition is
at the heart of the sustainable development goals. At the same time, climate change is
already impacting agriculture and food security, and will make the challenge of ending
hunger and malnutrition even more difficult. The effects of climate change on our
ecosystems are already severe and widespread, and ensuring food security in the face of
climate change is the most daunting challenge facing humankind. While some of the
problems associated with climate change are emerging gradually, action is urgently
needed to build resilience in agricultural production systems. Despite tremendous
progress in crop production, almost 800 million people are chronically undernourished,
and 161 million under-five year olds are stunted (FAO, 2016).According to the United
Nations (2015) report, there are still 836 million people in the world living in extreme
poverty (less than USD1.25/day). At least 70% of the poor people live in rural areas, most
of them depending partly or completely on agriculture for livelihood. It is estimated that
500 million smallholder farms in the developing world are supporting almost 2 billion
people. In Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, these small farms produce about 80% of the food
consumed (IFAD, 2011)...
 
Date 2016-11
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9920/1/28-34.pdf
Jaba, J and Sharma, H C (2016) Climate change impact on food security. In: Proceedings of the Advanced Training Course on “Effect of climate change on the incidence of insect pests”, 4th November to 24th November, 2016, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana.