Climate Change a Major Challenge to Feeding Planet, UN Says

Climate change is one of the central challenges the world’s farmers, ranchers, and fishermen will face as they gear up to feed a population expected to reach 10 billion by mid-century, the UN says in its most comprehensive study ever of the issue.

A changing climate will impact “every aspect of food production,” disproportionately hurting low-and middle-income communities, where “millions of people depend on agriculture and are vulnerable to food insecurity,” said the 166-page report released Feb. 22 by the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The report was the UN’s most ambitious effort to date to ...