Climate Change

Changing weather patterns are causing disruption to the food production process and are set to get worse in the future.

Extreme weather events, such as floods, hurricanes and droughts, are causing widespread damage to crops and livestock, exacerbating the spread of disease and altering temperature and precipitation patterns.

Developing countries are expected to bear the brunt of climate change with an academic study showing that agricultural output is predicted to decline by as much as 20% by 2020*.

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*Easterling, W.E., Aggarwal, P.K., Batima, P., Brander, K.M., Erda, L., Howden, S.M., Kirilenko, A., Morton, J., Soussana, J.-F., Schmidhuber, J. and Tubiello, .N. (2007), ‘Food, Fibre and Forest Products’, in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).