Klimawandelbedingte Bedrohungen für die Ernährungssicherheit

According to the World Hunger Index 2021, approximately 20 percent of the African population - some 278 million people - suffer from chronic hunger. The prevalence of malnutrition is not infrequently a direct consequence of wars as well as the corona pandemic measures that have disrupted supply chains. Indirectly, however, the deterioration of food security is also due to climate change: extreme weather events and changing local climatic conditions favour the loss of resources such as arable land and water, which are necessary for productive agriculture. Droughts make livestock farming more difficult and insect infestations cause massive crop failures, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.