Climate Change and Global Warming on Food Production in World

Year 2025, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 27 - 35, 30.06.2025

Oluwatosin Ebidemi Ogunkalu

Abstract

The threat posed by rising global carbon dioxide concentrations, population growth, and the diminishing and degradation of farmlands is worsening food insecurity in the world. Abiotic stresses brought on by climate change, such as salt, drought, and temperature swings, severely impair crops' physiological reactions, productivity, and total output. This poses a major danger to agroecosystems and global food security. Temperature variations can also affect the activity of enzymes, which can change the speeds of biochemical activities that plants use to absorb and utilize nutrients and likewise variations in the patterns of precipitation can affect the amount and distribution of nutrients in the soil, which can influence the uptake and growth of nutrients by plants. This review highlights the consequences of global warming on crop growth, aquaculture productivity, and nutritional value, a brief summary of climate change and its implications on food and agricultural output on Asia continent and part of North Africa continent is discussed.

Keywords

Climate Change , Global warming , Food Production , Food Security , World

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