Impact of climate change on the right to food 2015, para. 14
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- Sharp price increases for all major crops can be expected as a result of climate change accompanied by population growth, changing diets and increasing demand for non-food crops. Although it is difficult to predict food prices because of the many variables, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expects with medium confidence that global food prices will rise substantially by 2050. The Intergovernmental Panel predicts that low-income agricultural economies that are net food importers could experience significant losses in food access through a "double negative" effect of reduced domestic agricultural production and increased food prices on global markets. Furthermore, sudden shocks in prices and currency values, as well as extreme weather events, can also create obstacles to food distribution, making it difficult to deploy adequate responses to an increasingly frequent number of emergencies.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/287, para. 14.
- Paragraph number
- 14
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