Climatic Conditions In Food Security

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1. Introduction:
Adverse and unpredicted climatic conditions are the leading cause of the food security worldwide. It has adverse effects on water resources, crops production, hydropower, and human health worldwide (Nelson, Rosegrant, Koo, Robertson, Sulser, Zhu, & Magalhaes, 2009). Globally, the climate is changing rapidly over millennia but from the past few decades, greenhouse gases emission (GHG) have increased due to anthropogenic activities such as deforestation, land degradation, burning of fossil fuel and industrial revolution (Baig, & Amjad, 2014). Different factors are playing their role in the GHG emission but agriculture land is also considered a source of GHG emission (Rosegrant, Ewing, Yohe, Burton, Saleemul, & Valmonte-Santos, …show more content…

These people are facing the climatic condition that causes to increasing poverty in society and rapid population growth lead to food security in those regions (Berg, de Noblet-Ducoudré, Sultan, Lengaigne, & Guimberteau, 2013). More than 90 % of rice and 43% of wheat in the world are produced and consumed in Asia region (Arif, & Khalid, 2007). Food security can be defined as the availability of minimum human dietary needs in all times and space for healthy life (Asif, 2013). Sustainable agriculture production can play an important role to eliminate food scarcity and poverty in the world (Zhai, & Zhuang, …show more content…

In 2010, Russia got 40% less wheat production due to drought and another region at the same year, about half million tonnes wheat losses by flooding in Pakistan (WFP, 2012). Therefore, the world community is trying to overcome the climatic condition problem which damage to the agriculture food production region to region (Janjua et al., 2010). Prediction is that the production of wheat and rice will be reduced, especially in developing countries, by the shortage of water and limited availability of resources which cause of increasing the wheat and rice prices in the world by 2050 (CGIAR, 2009; UNFCCC, 2006). In Pakistan, wheat is major staple food but unfortunately, wheat production has decreased due to the high temperature that reveals the negative impact of climate change on wheat production (Janjua, Samad, Khan, & Nasir,

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