The Impact of Glacier Melts on Food Production in North Zone of Russia

Abstract

Food production has emerged as a critical issue for nations with varying levels of economic development, which is always had to contend with an unfavorable weather.The climatic variability changes including temperature, rainy days, humidity, precipitation and sunny days. Therefore, this have direct and indirect effects on food production (agriculture, aquculture, meat and dairy products). One of the regions where unfavorable climate is causing significant mass loss of glaciers melt in Siberia (the northern part of Russia). As well as, climate change and glaciers melting is projected to positively and negatively effects the availability of foods and food productions in this region. In this research, we tried to draw attention to the effects of ice melt occurring due to global warming in the northern region of Russia on food production. For this purpose, some climate parameters (Temperature, Total Precipitation, Rainy days, Humidity, 1991-2021; Sunshine duration, 1999-2019) observed for many years in the northern regions of Russia were statistically analyzed. As a result of the study, the average Temperature: 5.7 0C ± 10.268; Min temperature: 1.9 0C ± 9.412; Maximum temperature: 9.0 0C ± 11.00; Total Precipitation: 678 mm year-1 ± 14.607; Humidity: 76% ± 8.039; Number of rainy days: 89 days year-1 ± 0.831; Sunshine duration: 6.3 hours day-1 ± 4.345. In other studies conducted on climate change and food production in this region, it can be said that food production is affected by global warming and this situation shows an increasing trend.

Keywords

• Global Warming
• Glacier Melts
• Food Production
• Russia

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