How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production

An often-underreported impact of climate change is the devesting effect it will have on farmland and our ability to produce food. This will harm the livelihoods of millions and indirectly harm the health of billions. Climate change impacts our ability to grow food in several ways.

1)   1) Some areas are getting much more rain than the historical average, which leads to floods and farmland being washed away along with harvests.

2)    2) Droughts are another massive risk, as climate change worsens, periods with abnormal weather become even more common, and this is particularly harmful to regions that are already arid and rely on limited amounts of rainwater.

Over the past 100 years, the amount of food that we can grow on an acre has increased dramatically but due to the above reasons, this is not only expected to stagnate but even decline. The economic impact of this is already billions in lost harvests each year. But that pales in comparison to the human impact. The population of the world is expected to increase by a further 2 billion, and a rising population with decreasing farm yields that are projected to fall by as much as 25% is a recipe for disaster.

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