Climate change will hit food security, study finds

Europe’s exceptionally hot summer of 2003 is likely to be the norm by the end of the century, according to new climate research.¹ Current extreme temperatures are likely to be exceeded in most years across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Central America.

Soaring temperatures in the past have devastated crop yields. This does not bode well for meeting global food demand which is expected to double by 2050 (ENDS Report 406, p