How Does Climate Change Affect Climate Change

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report shows that that climate change has a direct impact on agriculture, livestock and fishing that lead to affect local and the global food security (Bals et al., 2008). Projected impact of climate change directly pertaining to agriculture include extended droughts and the loss of soil fertility as result of increased precipitation. This state of affairs led to the making of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, having the first goal to “Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger” with a target to halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. However, projections of a rapidly growing population, coupled with global climate change, is expected …show more content…

The impacts of climate change and the corresponding extreme weather events will certainty affect all dimensions of food security. Through changes in agro-ecological condition and then indirectly affect food distribution, accessibilities and price, climate change has directly impact on food production. Local food production is essential for rural and small-island livelihood, both in term of food security, but also for cultural, social and economic reasons. As a result may create local food …show more content…

In Jamaica, for instance, extreme climate events between 1994 and 2010 caused over UDS$130 million in damage and crop losses. Extreme rainfall events like El Nino and La Nino weather patterns caused significant losses in agricultural production and the necessity to import food and provide financial assistance to farmers. In the long term, without any mitigations and adaptations actions, climate change effect may increase poverty particularly in rural areas where their livelihood depend mainly on agriculture.
Adapting agriculture to climate change is essential to increase resilience of farmers and other players in the food system. Adapting food systems to climate change will take long-term visioning, targeted research, development of new technologies and human capacity development. Resilience in the farmers’ level will involve implementation of sustainable farming practices, diversification and an increased emphasis on management of the entire agro-ecological

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