Abstract
The issue of climate change has been gaining widespread attention and concern as it has the ability to directly/indirectly affect our standard of living and quality of life. It has often been postulated that changes in climate would have a vast effect on food production systems and that food security might be threatened due to increasing climate change. However, it seems that research on climate change and food in/security has often been one-sided; with climate change being identified as the cause of food insecurity and not how the systems in place to ensure food security have exacerbated the issue of climate change. This paper thus seeks to give a more balanced view and thus understanding of the complex relationship between climate change and food security by critically examining both systems.
Highlights
Climate change has always been a prevalent phenomenon
In order to gain a better insight of food production systems, climate change and food security, we have chosen to use both content and discourse analysis in order to gather the information needed for this research
Climate change causes adverse impacts on both ecosystems and human societies as it increases the incidence of floods, droughts and other climate-related disasters that have the potential to affect farmlands, livestock and animal husbandry, which are essential for agricultural purposes [12]
Summary
Climate change has always been a prevalent phenomenon. it is only in recent years that this issue has been given attention by international bodies, non-profit organizations, national bodies, corporations and individuals. “The change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period of time, typically decades or longer. The impacts of climate change such as the depletion of water resources and the rise in average global temperature have created conditions for a decline in agricultural production. This in turn leads to escalated food inflation globally as well as food shortages in the developing countries where the poor suffer greatly as they are unable to pay the upmarket prices for food [3]
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