Climate change and food security: Landcare NSW article

Deep inside the permafrost lies a doomsday vault holding the seeds of humanity. Only one person has taken them out https://ab.co/3yZl6cd The article highlights the escalating concerns around global food security, driven by the dual pressures of climate change and geopolitical conflicts, such as those in Ukraine and Israel-Gaza. Climate change exacerbates agricultural challenges through extreme weather events, while conflicts disrupt supply chains, leading to significant food shortages and price increases. This is relevant to Landcare NSW as it underscores the critical need for sustainable agricultural practices to mitigate climate impacts, strengthen local food system resilience, and enhance preparedness against global disruptions.

Deep inside the permafrost lies a doomsday vault holding the seeds of humanity. Only one person has taken them out https://ab.co/3yZl6cd The article highlights the escalating concerns around global food security, driven by the dual pressures of climate change and geopolitical conflicts, such as those in Ukraine and Israel-Gaza. Climate change exacerbates agricultural challenges through extreme weather events, while conflicts disrupt supply chains, leading to significant food shortages and price increases. This is relevant to Landcare NSW as it underscores the critical need for sustainable agricultural practices to mitigate climate impacts, strengthen local food system resilience, and enhance preparedness against global disruptions.

Deep inside the permafrost lies a doomsday vault holding the seeds of humanity. Only one person has taken them out https://ab.co/3yZl6cd The article highlights the escalating concerns around global food security, driven by the dual pressures of climate change and geopolitical conflicts, such as those in Ukraine and Israel-Gaza. Climate change exacerbates agricultural challenges through extreme weather events, while conflicts disrupt supply chains, leading to significant food shortages and price increases. This is relevant to Landcare NSW as it underscores the critical need for sustainable agricultural practices to mitigate climate impacts, strengthen local food system resilience, and enhance preparedness against global disruptions.

From ABC News "A team of scientists on the front lines of climate change is helping nature heal itself. But as wars rage around them, it’s making their efforts to feed an increasingly hungry globe that much harder." Take a look at this very interesting report. You will discover how #seeds are more than ever crucial for humanity particularly with many crisis we are facing today and their consequences on food security. https://lnkd.in/eG9DqtSp

The Doomsday Vault - protecting the seeds of humanity. Scientists on the frontlines of climate change are working to give humanity a “seed safety net”. Instability and wars across the world are making their efforts much harder. Incredible story from Brett Worthington which is worth a read. #climatechange #science #seeds #humanity https://lnkd.in/gacP5bzJ

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) reported last year that at least 100 million hectares of healthy and productive land are now lost every year (https://lnkd.in/gGtBp6RG): “Land is degrading faster than we can restore”. As usual with this kind of alarmist climate-related reporting, no context is given, and there is no explanation as to why this is happening. The usual assumption with this writing is that climate change is the catch all for all our ills. A little context: as per OurWorldInData and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), currently 4-5 billion hectares are used for agriculture. So, 100 million hectares represents about a 2% reduction per year. Why is this happening? It is due to innovation. Humanity does not need as much land to feed its growing population. A paper by Taylor and Rising (2021), (https://lnkd.in/g8u39wQ8) explains this in more detail: “Our findings generally support the Borlaug hypothesis: cropland area has plateaued globally and across income group while crop production has continued to rise”. In other words, Taylor and Rising simply state that, as societies get richer, and move in development time to the right in Figure 3 (shown below) of their paper, there is a peak in land use for agriculture. After that, more land is protected, for example as national parks (blue area on top) and less land is needed to feed their population. The authors call this last stage “greening”. When you dig a little deeper, bad news is actually good news. Mind you, this is from the same UN that is actively lobbying to silence anyone who is spreading mis- and disinformation (https://lnkd.in/gC2QRViJ). Is the UN spinning negativity to attract more eyeballs, or is there something more sinister at work? #poverty #famine #agriculture #drought #climate #climatechange #energy #innovation #crops #fertilizer 

Climate change is reshaping Canadian agriculture. New techniques and technology are needed to tackle shifting growing seasons, reduced crop yields and extreme weather. “These changes will ripple through the food supply chain, potentially impacting the availability and cost of fruit, vegetables, legumes, meat and dairy products.” - Professor Hugh Henry #WesternU profs Hugh Henry and Yanping Li share insights on the future of farming in the latest story from Our Warming Planet series.

What Happens in the Soil, Doesn’t Stay in the Soil: How the Climate Impacts on Our Ecosystems Climate extremes — droughts, floods, freezes, and heatwaves — have become increasingly common in the last two decades, pushing microscopic communities to their limits. Recent research across 30 European grasslands exposes how these events threaten the foundation of soil ecosystems. This groundbreaking study reveals the resilience of soil microbiomes and their vulnerabilities, raising urgent questions about the future of life on Earth. Discover how our shopping habits become part of the problem and further damage our environment.

In 'Regensis' George Monbiot wrote that we are already seeing flickerings of distress in the global food system, heralding a future collapse. George Monbiot also predicted that by the last two decades of this century 1/3rd of farming land will be pushed outside the safe climatic space for growing crops and for human survival. A huge swathe of land from Portugal to Pakistan will essentially become uninhabitable. As this report from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification states more than 3/4s of the world's land has ALREADY become permanently drier over recent decades. We are facing large scale desertification - so much worse than droughts. “Unlike droughts – temporary periods of low rainfall – aridity represents a permanent, unrelenting transformation,” said Ibrahim Thiaw, UNCCD executive secretary “Human-caused climate change is the culprit; known for making the planet warmer, it is also making more and more land drier. The result is 🏜️ poor soil fertility 🏜️ crop losses 🏜️ biodiversity declines 🏜️ intense sand and dust storms 🏜️ frequent wildfires and, of course, 🏜️ greater food and water insecurity. Aridity-related water scarcity is causing illness and death and spurring large-scale forced migration around the world,” the report said. Desertification may not be happening in your country yet, but it doesn't matter. Collapse of vast tracts of farm lands elsewhere will trigger food shortages, riots, mass migration and ultimately starvation everywhere - in the UK we are not in any way self sufficient in food production. What can we do? Rapidly curb oil and gas use and emissions and prepare for a drying world. Look to and diversify your food supply chains and shorten them as far as possible. Look to your own and your business's emissions and make reducing these an urgent priority, if not already. ♻️Found this post of interest? Please repost to help your network. Follow Suzanne Wise for more #climatecrisis #climateactionnow #leadership #supplychains

As climate change continues to intensifies, it will wreak havoc on certain crops. Two most at risk are Coffee and Cocao. I invested in Atomo Coffee back in 2017 as an angel investor, because of their solution for a much more competitive coffee world. This is a very good article on people trying to find solutions to mitigate this risk. #coffee #sustainability #climateaction