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Food Security Issues in Changing Climate

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Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture

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The security of food is extremely crucial for humans all around the world. The worldwide climate is continuously changing, and the major cause of the temperature rise is industrialization. Moreover, it is also influencing the food system in different ways, from direct impact on crop production to changes in markets, food prices, and infrastructure in the supply chain. Precipitation change may lead to drought or flooding, and warmer or colder temperatures may alter the growing seasons. In the current century, our planet’s average temperature is preceded to surge from 2 to 4.5 °C. For food security, the relative importance of climate change varies from region to region. For the next 50 years and beyond, global food safety will remain a global concern. In several regions of the world, crop yield declined mainly due to poor research infrastructure and facilities related to coping with the climate change disaster. Rainfall shifts and temperature fluctuations in large numbers are threatening agricultural development and have increased the vulnerability of livelihoods of people dependent on agriculture. Climate change interferes with food markets, posing population-wide food supply threats. Threats can be minimized through the increase in farmers’ adaptive ability and by increasing the resilience and efficiency of resource use in agricultural systems. While agroecological approaches (such as crop diversification, low-till farming, green manures, organic fertilizers, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, biological pest management, rainwater collection, and raising crops and livestock in ways that store carbon and preserve forests) are promising to boost yield, food security may dramatically improve in developing countries by growing policy and investment reforms. Food quality, access, and availability may all be impacted by climate change. Adaptation must promote the management of all food security levels, both urban and rural, from the farmer to the customer. Measures from the community to the international level have to be participatory. Moreover, many individual endeavors provide inspiration and useful methods, but the maintenance and improvement of food security can all be hindered by institutional, economic, and environmental factors. It will be necessary to develop innovative approaches to food production, delivery, and storage.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, Vehari, Pakistan

    Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed, Mazhar Ali, Samina Khalid, Muhammad Farhan Saeed & Amjad Farooq

  2. Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

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  3. Crop Sciences Institute, National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Aqeel Sarwar

  4. Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, The Women University, Multan, Pakistan

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  5. The Cholistan Institute of Desert Studies, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

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  6. Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Shahid Ibni Zamir

  7. Department of Agronomy, University of Poonch Rawalakot, Rawalakot, AJK, Pakistan

    Muhammad Shahzad

  8. Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kafrelsheikh, Kafr-el-Sheikh, Egypt

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Javeed, H.M.R. et al. (2023). Food Security Issues in Changing Climate. In: Jatoi, W.N., Mubeen, M., Hashmi, M.Z., Ali, S., Fahad, S., Mahmood, K. (eds) Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26692-8_6

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