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Agrilinks – Climate-Smart Agriculture: An Integrated Approach to Address Climate and Food Security Challenges
This blog by Margaret Anderson and Daniel Gies was originally published in Agrilinks on August 23, 2021.
Like all farmers today, smallholder farmers in food-insecure regions of the world are finding themselves caught at the intersection of climate change and the growing demand for food. Rising temperatures and changes in precipitation levels threaten food production and nutrition in countless rural communities that already struggle to satisfy their most basic food requirements.
And they are losing ground. A 2020 report found that nearly 690 million people—or 8.9% of the global population—are hungry, an increase of nearly 60 million in five years. Worse yet, food security will only become more difficult to attain in the future. Thirty years from now, the world’s farmers will need to produce about 70% more food to feed an estimated 9 billion people.