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CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY : A FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME, 2008 CLIMATE CHANGE and food SECURITY : a framework document iiiFOREWORD CLIMATE CHANGE will affect all four dimensions of food SECURITY : food availability, food accessibility, food utilization and food systems stability. It will have an impact on human health, livelihood assets, food production and distribution channels, as well as changing purchasing power and market flows. Its impacts will be both short term, resulting from more frequent and more intense extreme weather events, and long term, caused by changing temperatures and precipitation patterns, People who are already vulnerable and food insecure are likely to be the first affected. Agriculture-based livelihood systems that are already vulnerable to food insecurity face immediate risk of increased crop failure, new patterns of pests and diseases, lack of appropriate seeds and planting material, and loss of livestock.
Climate and its measurement 6 Climate system 7 ... Living with uncertainty and managing new risks 32 Improving the quality of information and its use 34 ... change in several key policy domains of importance for food security. Defining terms and conceptualizing relationships
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