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How is climate change affecting the safety of our food?

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 7p.

Author mukherjee, k.; rowan, m.; fattori, v.;

Publisher BNP Media ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) Under the best circumstances, agriculture can be a tough business. Today, increasing pressures on the world’s land and water resources are jeopardizing humanity’s ability to feed itself. Exacerbated by climate change, these pressures are making agriculture a more vulnerable and challenging enterprise. Elevated temperatures, changes in water availability, deteriorating soil quality, extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification, among other factors, can have an impact on food production, processing, storage, and distribution, right up to the moment it reaches our tables. In other words, our entire food system is threatened by climate change.

This document is an author manuscript version of article that has been published externally in Food Safety Magazine June 16, 2021

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