Climate adaptation requires billions in additional annual investments to prevent hunger (EurekAlert)

Eureka Alert published an article on an IFPRI study that provides new insights into the costs of a range of investment scenarios for climate change adaptation, drawing from complex modeling of its ecological and human impacts. The study, Climate change and hunger:  Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system and its model show, according to Senior Scientist and lead author of the study, Timothy Sulser, “increased investments in the agriculture sector can more than compensate for climate change effects on the number of hungry people in the world. However, certain regions are more vulnerable than others, particularly Africa South of the Sahara and South Asia. Even in scenarios with no climate change, high population growth coupled with low-income growth is predicted to increase rates of hunger in these regions. It will take targeted investments to reverse these trends.”