Food Security, Climate Change Adaptation, and Disaster Risk

Abstract

Climate change impacts and natural disasters are the leading cause of hunger and affect all dimensions of food security including access to food, availability and stability of supplies, and nutrition across the world. The global food crisis is exposing existing and potential vulnerabilities of households, governments, and the international system to food and nutrition insecurity. Most food-insecure people live in areas prone to natural hazards, and they are the least able to cope with shocks. Due to their vulnerability and limited capacity to manage risks, poor households are often trapped in a downward spiral of food insecurity and poverty. On the other hand, Millennium Development Goals, the first goal is to eradicate hunger and poverty, and everybody around the world is fighting together for this. At present, there are 925 million undernourished people in the world. Therefore, this chapter focuses its attention on the current scenarios of hunger and concept and dimension of food security systems, in order to understand their vulnerability to environmental change, linkages among food security, climate change, and natural disasters and to identify solutions of food security coupled with climate change and disaster risk.