Climate changes will affect food production in a number of ways.
Crop yields, aquatic populations and forest productivity will
decline, invasive insect and plant species will proliferate and
desertification, soil salinization and water stress will increase.
Each of these impacts will decrease food and nutrition security,
primarily by reducing access to and availability of food, and also
by increasing the risk of infectious disease.
Although increased biofuel demand has the potential to increase
incomes among producers, it can also negatively affect food and
nutrition security. Land used for cultivating food crops may be
diverted to biofuel production, creating food shortages and raising
prices. Accelerations in unregulated or poorly regulated foreign
direct investment, deforestation and unsustainable use of chemical
fertilizers may also result." "Biofuel production may reduce women
s control of resources, which may in turn reduce the quality of
household diets. Each of these effects increases risk of poor food
and nutrition security, either through decreased physical
availability of food, decreased purchasing power, or increased risk
of disease.
"The Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition"
articulates the links between current environmental issues and food
and nutrition security. It provides a unique collection of
nutrition statistics, climate change projections, biofuel scenarios
and food security information under one cover which will be of
interest to policymakers, academia, agronomists, food and nutrition
security planners, programme implementers, health workers and all
those concerned about the current challenges of climate change,
energy production, hunger and malnutrition.
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