Yet even though food safety is a major global concern, it “has not received political attention”, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Climate change and the globalization of food production, coupled with a rising world population and increasing urbanization, pose new challenges to food safety, the WHO said. But her research found that only three countries mentioned food safety in their national action plans for adapting to climate change, prepared under U.N. negotiations. And when it comes to climate change, the global food system is responsible for 20 to 30 percent of planet-warming emissions, sparking calls for plant-based diets and new farming methods. “But the very interesting question of the relationship between food safety and climate change has never really been quantified,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Source: News Business Ethiopia February 15, 2019 16:37 UTC