![]() 5 Unsurprisingly, the places most impacted by food insecurity-especially Africa and South Asia-are also those suffering from the most pervasive forms of poverty and environmental vulnerability. 3,4 These combined, interrelated factors have placed unprecedented stress on humanitarian organizations: humanitarian appeals have ballooned to record levels. 2 Slow economic recovery from the 2008 global financial crisis (and food price spikes) and the increasing frequency and magnitude of climate-related extreme events have helped reverse years of progress fighting global hunger. The number of hungry and malnourished people worldwide has grown in tandem with a rise in human conflict and forced displacement. At the same time, over 2 billion people around the world are overweight or obese, and over 1 billion suffer from micronutrient deficiency, sometimes referred to as “hidden hunger.” To amend a famous line from author Raj Patel, the world today is “stuff, starved, and hollowed out.” 1 These people experience a shortage of food each day, while over twice that number face moderate food insecurity and frequently compromise on the quality or quantity of food they consume. ![]() Today, 821 million people-one in nine-are undernourished. After great progress over the last decade, the number of chronically hungry people around the world has grown in each of the last three years. The impacts of climate change threaten a complex global food system that is already struggling to meet the needs of a growing and changing population. government global policies and programs that tackle this important issue. This brief seeks to summarize the relationship between climate change and food insecurity, highlight salient trends and controversies, and comment on U.S. The effects of climate change on food production-often neglected in favor of stories on melting glaciers, tropical storms, and sea level rise-are receiving more and more mainstream attention. global food security programs.Īs people around the world increasingly feel the impacts of climate change, the collective call for action grows louder and louder. Agency for International Development (USAID) to further mainstream climate resilience into U.S. As climate impacts worsen and further stress an already hungry world, the United States should claim the mantle of global leadership in responding to the impacts of climate change, double down on domestic efforts to promote climate-smart agriculture, elevate the issue of climate change and food insecurity in national security circles, and leverage the reorganization of the U.S. ![]() Climate change poses a considerable threat to global food security, with potentially existential economic, political, and social outcomes for humanity. ![]()
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