Food production to dip, hunger to rise in India due to climate change, says report (The Hindu) 

The Hindu published an article on the findings of the 2022 Global Food Policy Report. The projections are part of a model that was used to evaluate the impact of climate change on aggregate food production, food consumption (kcal per person per day), net trade of major food commodity groups, and the population at risk of going hungry. IMPACT, as the model is called, simulates national and international agricultural markets. It was developed with inputs from scientists from CGIAR and other leading global economic modeling efforts. Baseline projections indicate that global food production will grow by about 60 percent over 2010 levels by 2050 in the context of climate change. Regional differences in access to food mean that nearly 500 million people are projected to remain at risk of going hungry. Globally, about 70 million more people will be at risk from hunger because of climate change, including more than 28 million in East and Southern Africa. The average temperature across India is projected to rise by between 2.4°C and 4.4°C by 2100. Similarly, summer heat waves are projected to triple by 2100 in India and increase at the rate of 0.71 days per decade in Pakistan.