Climate Change: A Major Threat to India's Food Security

 "Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change," one of the panelist, Chairman Rajendra Pachauri said at a news conference in Yokohama, Japan. "Changes in climate variables including regional monsoon variation and increase in incidence of severe storms have led to changes in the composition of species in the Ganges River, and have reduced the availability of fish spawn for aquaculture in the river," the report added.

Increased in temperature would also lead to decline in dairy production, reduced animal weight gain, problems in reproduction, increased cost of production and lower food conversion efficiency in warm regions. So, before things get worse, India should work towards improving its climatic condition at the earliest.
Arpana Udupa, campaigner, Greenpeace India exclaimed, "The new government should speedily act to bring about a clean energy transition and strengthen adaptation, looking at the mitigation and adaptation benefits in every scheme, starting from energy," reports DNA.

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