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“Food production threatens to be the greatest casualty of climate change, but sustainable agriculture has the ability, through adaptation and mitigation, to respond to more extreme weather events. Climate change is having profound consequences on our planet’s diversity of life and on people’s lives. Oceans are warming. Sea levels are rising, creating an existential threat for dozens of small island states. Longer, more intense droughts threaten freshwater supplies and crops, endangering efforts to feed a growing world population. Without action, the changing climate will seriously compromise food production in countries and regions that are already highly food insecure. It will affect food availability by reducing the productivity of crops,livestock and fisheries, and hinder access to food by disrupting the livelihoods of millions of rural people who depend on agriculture for their incomes. It will expose both urban and rural poor to higher and more volatile food prices. Ultimately, it will jeopardize progress towards the SDGs. [UN Development Goals] …Agriculture has a major role to play in responding to climate change. ..”
Sustainable Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Transforming the World Through Food and Agriculture”, FAO and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development“, P 16, Photo as reproduced in Phys.org, “Organic farming drives sustainable agriculture” Dr. Adrian Muller, 4/19/2019, credit: iStock/SimonSkafar
