Water mediated many climate change impacts on agriculture, said the reportGlobal food production patterns would be fundamentally altered by climate change, causing food insecurity because of small shifts in seasonality and water availability, according to the World Water Development Report released by the United Nations on March 22, 2020. Increased rainfall, drought and flooding coupled with higher temperatures were the climate change drivers that the monsoonal Indian subcontinent would witness. The vulnerability to climate change in these systems is ‘very high’ and ‘high’, respectively. Increased water scarcity also posed a major challenge for climate adaptation in many regions of the world, since water mediated many climate change impacts on agriculture. The focus of countries should not just be on the variable of water in agriculture, according to the report.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 22, 2020 10:41 UTC