Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Climate Change, Food Scarcity and Disease

The present era is third industrial revolution and the world is going towards development, but the cost of this development is the environmental degradation. One of the most dangerous climate changes is due to global warming. Global warming means increase in the average temperature of the Earth.

Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that the increase in global average temperature is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentration. This has adversely affected the negative impacts on crop production, which gives a significant economic loss to us. Loss of food and water is one of the immediate threats by global warming. Crop productivity decreases globally for even small changes in average temperature of 1-3°C.

Local adverse effects also hit the aquaculture and fisheries industries directly or indirectly. Climate variability and their effect on environment severely compromises food production and yields decreases in some regions upto 50% by 2025.

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