By CNBCTV18.com Mar 3, 2022 4:08:13 PM IST (Published)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II has said the production of cereals like rice and maize, livestock and fisheries will be negatively impacted by increasing global temperatures.
Global warming conjures up images of glaciers melting, sea levels rising and forests disappearing. While all of these scenarios are devastating, people rarely imagine that their food supplies will be massively impacted by climate change.
In its latest report, "Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II has warned that the increase in global average temperature is going to have significant risks to agricultural and food systems in vulnerable regions of the world like India.
“We’re already experiencing acute food and water shortages … If we look at two degrees of global warming we know that areas that are currently growing staple crops will not be able to grow those at the same level of efficiency and effectiveness. And so there are significant challenges coming for areas like South America, Africa, (sic) Asia, in terms of overall food production,” said Debra Roberts, one of the report’s co-chairs, in a press conference