How will climate change affect world food production?

Global warming is already affecting farmers worldwide; future impacts will vary by region, crop and temperature. read more

Also, climate models have difficulty in accurately predicting the detailed local environmental changes that are important for food production, particularly weather extremes. A looming vulnerability is the world's fisheries, which provide an important source of protein for at least half the world's population. read more

Climate-related threats to global food production include risks to grain, vegetable, and fruit crops, livestock, and fisheries. See how global warming threatens food production in Vietnam—and find other hot spots with food impacts on the Climate Hot Map. read more

Hence the net effect would be there would even be a marginal gain the food productivity after climate change. But we would have too much trouble leveraging this because--> Firstly , the world food production is not of as much importance as national production. read more