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Climate Change on Food Prices
December 13 , 2021
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- The Food and Agricultural Organization has said that the average food prices (after adjusting for inflation) in the 11 months of 2021 are the highest in 46 years due to climate change.
- Due to disasters, the world is losing up to 4% of the potential crop and livestock production.
- Climate change is fuelling extreme and erratic weather events and prolonging drought and heatwaves.
- These lead to widespread crop damage and also affect crop yields in the long term.
- The global food price rise was driven predominantly by wheat, which reported an increase in price due to drought and high temperatures in major producing countries, including the US and Canada.
- The price rise impacts the world’s poor even more because the pandemic has already pushed millions into the poverty trap.
- Every third person in the world is not able to have adequate food.
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