Abstract

Food Security and Sustainable Development in the Era of Climate Change: A Review

The drastic change in climate is severely going to impede the process of providing food security and sustainable development to the millions of people across the globe. Three major challenges have arisen that threaten to drastically complicate efforts to overcome food insecurity and malnutrition climate change, the growing use of food crops as a source of biofuel and soaring food prices. Food access will be affected through reduction of income from animal production, reduction of yields of food and cash crops lowered forest productivity and changes in aquatic populations, as well as increased costs of control. Food prices impact food access of households, inter-alia by limiting the acquisition of appropriate foods for a nutritious diet and the purchasing power of food aid programme, in another dimension climate adversely affect the food utilization. The proper synergy is to be developed for mitigating the adverse affects of climate change on food security and sustainable development.

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