Climate change poses a threat to food security

Researchers around the world have been using data to predict how the devastating changes in weather patterns will affect the price of food.

In a recent report researchers from the European Central Bank together with agricultural experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said that climate change has already pushed up food prices.

According to the paper with the globe continuing to get warmer, food prices are projected to increase by 0,6 to 3,2 percentage points by 2060.

Researchers said that basically as the temperature goes up, so does the price of food. In the US, according to the USDA, corn yields have dropped drastically globally. Corn is typically grown in warmer climates, but floods and other changes in weather patterns have affected the fields.

Associations from the across the world said that when countries are preparing outlooks for the year ahead, other factors such as recessions, wars and changes in policies also need to be considered. The Ukraine and Russian conflict also had a drastic effect on the inflation acrpss the world.

According to the European Union (EU), repeated heat waves around the continent, have caused many of the rivers that were a source of water to farms to dry up.

The union said that the dry weather coupled with the Russian-Ukraine conflict have driven up the price of wheat. This has also caused food prices to push up by an additional 0,67 percentage points in Europe, said the EU.

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