The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released a news article this morning based on a talk given to the International Forum on Agriculture and Climate Change. In it, the FAO Director-General discussed current agricultural methods and how, even though farmers produce more food than what is needed by the world, problems with distribution means that current production methods will probably not keep pace with needs for food in the future due to the difficulty of getting the food where it is needed.
The FAO is advocating “climate-smart” agricultural methods, which they describe as “adjusting farming practices to make them more adaptive and resilient to environmental pressures, while at the same time decreasing farming’s own impacts on the environment”. Of course many agricultural producers are already adapting to changes in climate by adding irrigation, changing crop rotations, and building better soils through management practices. You can read more about this initiative by clicking here. You can read more about the Global Initiative for Climate-Smart Agriculture here.
This news comes as Yahoo News has published a recent article on how climate change is hampering food production in some areas (link)