Abstract
To meteorologists, food security is dominated by the impacts of weather and climate on food systems, but the link between the atmosphere and food security is more complex. Extreme weather events, the exemplar of which are tropical cyclones, impact directly on agriculture, but they also impact on the logistical distribution of food and can thus disrupt the food supply chain, especially in urban areas. A holistic approach is required to understand the phenomena, to forecast outcomes and to predict their societal consequences. In the Food Security recommendations of the Rio + 20 Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, it states that it is important “To understand fully how to measure, assess and reduce the impacts of production on the natural environment including climate change, recognising that different measures of impact (e.g. water, land, biodiversity, carbon and other greenhouse gases) may trade-off against each other…”. The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), through its Union Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC), led a consortium of international scientific unions to examine weather, climate and food security as well as to look at the interaction of food security and geophysical phenomena.
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Beer, T. (2018). The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Food Security. In: Mal, S., Singh, R., Huggel, C. (eds) Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56469-2_8
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