The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation, due to be published on 31 March, is expected to warn that climate change will lead to declines in global agricultural yields of up to 2% each decade at the same time as demand for food increases by 14% per decade.
It is also expected to warn of higher and more volatile food prices - Oxfam estimates world cereal prices could double by 2030, with half of this rise driven by climate change.
This may cut the availability of calories from cereals to levels not seen since the 1990s. While temperature rises of just 1.5 degrees will have serious impacts on our food system the IPCC is also expected to highlight a global temperature threshold of 3 - 4 degrees beyond which we will experience runaway global food crises - we are on track to reach this threshold in the second half of this century.
This may cut the availability of calories from cereals to levels not seen since the 1990s. While temperature rises of just 1.5 degrees will have serious impacts on our food system the IPCC is also expected to highlight a global temperature threshold of 3 - 4 degrees beyond which we will experience runaway global food crises - we are on track to reach this threshold in the second half of this century.
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International said: "Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger. It could have grave consequences for what we all eat, but the world is woefully underprepared for it." READ MORE
Source: www.fin24.com #IFAMAFRICA
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