“Record-breaking heat that has been beating down on the Caribbean for the past few months poses a grave threat to regional food security. Unprecedented temperatures are impacting soil and water, worker productivity and income, food prices and trade— with consequences for the availability, accessibility and affordability of major crops, fish stocks, livestock… and even imported food,” writes Forbes.
The article quotes Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, who, in an interview with the New York Times, said that persistent droughts “could lead to regional shortfalls and, with poor countries unable to afford higher prices, food security issues.”
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