article · Food and Energy Security
This review investigates the consequences of climate change on food insecurity in Africa, highlighting its impact on agricultural outputs, food supply chains, and the widening social gap. It emphasises the complex demands placed on food security systems across availability, accessibility, utilisation, and stability, demonstrating how farm production is susceptible to changes in temperature, precipitation, and weather patterns. The review also identifies contributing factors to food insecurity, such as population growth, poverty, inadequate early warning systems, and weak agricultural infrastructure. Furthermore, it discusses how climate change affects food prices, income disparities, and the potential for social unrest. Vulnerable groups, including the impoverished, elderly, physically challenged, and women, face increased risks.
Climate change poses a severe and multifaceted threat to agricultural sustainability and food security across Africa. Understanding these complex impacts, from reduced farm yields to social instability and increased vulnerability for specific groups, is crucial for developing effective, comprehensive strategies to protect livelihoods and ensure regional stability.
The abstract is a review of the impacts of climate change on food security and calls for comprehensive strategies; it does not indicate an application pathway for commercialisation.
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Abstract Climate change results in lower agricultural outputs, disruption of food supply chains, and widening of the social gap between poor and rich in developing countries, with more vulnerable groups being pushed into untold poverty. This review aims to investigate the consequences of climate change on food insecurity in Africa in the context of environmental degradation. This review emphasizes the complexity of demands on food security systems due to changing climatic conditions under the four pillars (availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability). This review demonstrated the susceptibility of farm production to changes in temperature, precipitation, and weather patterns generated by climate change. In addition, this review investigated the factors shaping food insecurity, such as increasing population growth, poverty, inadequate early warning systems, and weak agricultural infrastructure. Furthermore, the review points out how climate change affects food prices and availability and the widening income gap, potentially leading to social unrest and political instability in Africa. Vulnerable populations, including impoverished, elderly, and physically challenged individuals, are at increased risk due to climate‐related health impacts. Women who face gender inequalities and socioeconomic limitations are particularly susceptible. We posit that there is a need for comprehensive strategies that address health disparities and consider vulnerable subgroups within society alongside broader measures to enhance food security in the face of climate change.
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DOI: 10.1002/fes3.567
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