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Climate Change, Food Security and the Right to Adequate Food [Series: Analysis 02]
Bals, Christoph Harmeling, Sven Windfuhr, Michael
Bals, Christoph
Harmeling, Sven
Windfuhr, Michael
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"Climate change threatens to make the already difficult situation of food security in the world even worse. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – based on the evaluation of many scientific studies – has made a critical assessment of the possible impacts of climate change on agriculture, livestock and fishing, particularly in the countries of the tropics and sub-tropics. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) also warns about the negative consequences, in particular for smallholder subsistence farmers in what are in any case marginalized regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America. In view of the threat of more famine, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations has also started to examine the question of the responsibility of the international community of states in terms of human rights when it comes to dealing with the need to adapt to climate change. In particular, there is a need to provide support for vulnerable people in special need of protection, who are not able to cope with the consequences of climate change on their own. “Bread for the World”, the development organisation of the Protestant church in Germany, has always paid particular attention to fighting hunger and its structural causes. Climate change presents this work with a new challenge, as it threatens what has already been achieved in some areas and causes new problems in other areas of the world. Food security and climate change is therefore a strategic topic both in the international programme work and in respect of lobbying on development policy. “Germanwatch”, an environmental and development organisation, which has closely observed and followed the international negotiations on climate change since their inception, has placed great emphasis on food security during climate change from an early stage, including the aspect of climate policy. Here the significance of adaptation and the financing of adaptation has become increasingly important over recent years, because this issue is decisive for the poorest developing countries and island states.[...]", Danuta Sacher, Klaus Milke, Volker Gerdesmeier, Foreword, p. 15
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