Major Factors Effecting

Food Insecurity
Made By: Ali Tahir
Student ID: 20191-25849

Weather & Climate:

Pakistan:
 Climate change caused great variability of monsoon rainfall
causing serious flooding.
 Steady Rise in the sea level of Sindh Coast can have serious
economic repercussions.
 In 2020 Pakistan’s annual mean temperature was recorded as 9th
warmest year in decade.
 Total rainfall for the year 2020 was 38% above than the 1961-
2010.
 From 2011- 2013, Pakistan has experienced 21 floods that had an
estimated damage of 19 billion dollars.
 Increased saline water affects agriculture, mangroves and
breeding fish in the ground.
 Climatic change causing climatic calamities such as Earthquake in
2005 in Kashmir caused great disturbance.
  Due to extreme weather there has been increased in occurrence
of droughts. In 2019, a lack of rain followed by floods created a
shortage of food in Sindh and also in other parts of the country.

Worldwide:
 Climate change has seen that warm weather spoiled our food
which we take from our home.
 Hotter temperatures mean there's more CO2 in the atmosphere.
And that could have a huge impact on the nutrition present in the
foods we eat. For example, the report cites, protein will decrease
as C02 levels increase from 520 parts per million to 960 ppm.
 (We are currently at 409 ppm.) Studies show that barley, wheat,
potatoes and rice have 6 to 15 percent lower concentrations of
protein when grown at those levels of CO2.
 About 10 percent of the crops grown in the world’s major food
production regions are irrigated with groundwater that is non-
renewable.
 According to a 2011 National Academy of Sciences report, for
every degree Celsius that the global thermostat rises, there will be
a 5 to 15 percent decrease in overall crop production.
 Starting in 2006, drought in major wheat producing countries was
a key factor in a dramatic spike in food prices. Many countries
experienced food riots and political unrest.