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Comment: FACT
Agriculture is usually pointed as one of the contributors to climate change, however, it also has been described as the sector most affected by it with the largest need for adaptation.
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The article depicts a challenging world with sea level rising, droughts, floods, heat waves and more intense storms. Those shifts in weather patterns will impact the volume, the quality and the stability of food production. In Europe the wettest, Northern regions are becoming wetter, promoting increased fungal disease, while the increased dryness in Southern regions brings a much increased threat from insect pests and water scarcity.
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A paper on Climate Change produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations stated that pests, pathogens and weeds already destroy more than 40% of the world’s food supply. This figure can only increase with the foreseen weather disruptions, which is creating favourable conditions for ‘animal and plant pests and diseases in new areas as well as changing the way they are transmitted.’
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This is clearly a major problem which needs to be solved by the world’s leaders with the imperative contribution and support of the crop protection industry in all continents. Climate change and food security measures must go hand in hand. |
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