The impacts of climate change on agriculture and the implications for food security are already alarming – they are the subjects of this report. A major finding is that there is an urgent need to support smallholders in adapting to climate change.
Farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk and communit y foresters depend on activities that are intimately and inextricably linked to climate – and these groups are also the most vulnerable to climate change. They will
require far greater access to technologies, markets, information and credit for investment to adjust their production systems and practices to climate change.
Unless action is taken now to make agriculture more sustainable, productive and resilient, climate change impacts will seriously compromise food production in countries and regions that are already highly food-insecure.
These impacts will jeopardize progress towards the key Sustainable Development Goals of ending hunger and poverty by 2030; beyond 2030, their increasingly negative impacts on agriculture will be widespread.