HONG KONG: Researchers at Wageningen University and Ghent University (Belgium) have published a special issue on the “Impacts of Climate Change on Food Safety,” found in the latest issue of Food Research International. In their report, they discuss not only food production and food safety, but the direct impacts to human health associated with climate change, such as flooding, droughts and adverse weather conditions.
The researchers cite a number of important studies, such as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change studies (IPCC), and the European Union financed Veg-i-Trade study. These studies are the first qualitative studies showing the relationship between climate change and food safety. Overall, the Wageningen and Ghent researchers agreed with the conclusions reached by researchers in these studies.
But in this new study, the research team also say it is necessary to add additional climate scenarios, or models, as well as a quantitative study looking into the possible problems and adaptation options that could be available.This part of the report is the most interesting, and again points to the need for worldwide vigilance as well as for having ready solutions available that can be adapted to differing climatic patterns. Doing so is essential to food security for all nations.
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