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Mar 30
Rice cultivating, Dongting Lake, Hunan Province, China © Yifei ZHANG / WWF

Op-ed – Operating in the Dark: How Climate Change will Affect Food

  • March 30, 2016
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This commentary, authored by World Wildlife Fund Senior Vice President for Food & Markets Jason Clay, appeared in Greenbiz on March 30, 2016.


The year is 2020 and the world is on the cusp of a global food crisis. Throughout the next decade, the world will struggle to meet a host of escalating food security issues, price hikes and scarcity caused by population growth, rapid urbanization, extreme weather and political upheaval.

That’s the scenario that drove a recent real-time simulation, Food Chain Reaction: A Global Food Security Game. The exercise divided 65 thought leaders and policymakers from several countries into eight teams: Brazil, China, the EU, India, the U.S., continental Africa, multilateral institutions such as the U.N. and World Bank and, lastly, business and investors.

The exercise was designed to help decision-makers better understand the interdependencies of food, climate, trade and political stability, as well as the cascading effects of collective and individual policy decisions.

Read the complete piece at https://www.greenbiz.com/article/operating-dark-how-climate-change-will-affect-food.

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