Food in an uncertain The impacts of climate change on food security and nutrition in the future Middle East and North Africa Food in an uncertain future 1 World Food Programme Regional Bureau for Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Contents Nile Gardenia Building, Intersection of Roads 108 & 161, Hadaek El Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. http://www.wfp.org 3 Acknowledgments 4 Overseas Development Institute Executive Summary 203 Blackfriars Road 6 London Introduction SE1 8NJ 10 Tel. +44 (0) 20 7922 0300 Current food security in the Middle East and North Africa Fax. +44 (0) 20 7922 0399 The macro-picture: challenges in national food systems and strategies E-mail:
[email protected] The status of household food security and nutrition www.odi.org The geography of food insecurity www.odi.org/facebook 22 www.odi.org/twitter The future climate of the Middle East and North Africa A hotter, drier future: long term trends The views presented in this paper are those of the More frequent, more intense extremes authors and do not necessarily represent the views 28 of ODI or the World Food Programme. The impacts of climate change on food security How will food producers be affected? © World Food Programme 2015. All rights reserved. How will climate change affect food production? Which food producers will be most vulnerable? All ODI Reports are available from www.odi.org How will food consumers be affected? Climate is not only the only change: intersections with other trends 42 Options for building resilience and reducing risk Strengthen food systems and economic development for all Improve the yields, income, and choices of poor food producers 48 Conclusions 50 References 2 Food in an uncertain future Food in an uncertain future 1 Acknowledgements Authors: Guy Jobbins and Giles Henley, The authors would like to thank Oscar Ekdahl and Overseas Development Institute Carlo Scaramella at the World Food Programme for their oversight of, and contributions to, the report.