Opinion: The climate crisis and food costs are innately intertwined, Rising temperatures go hand in hand with rising prices, Chloe MacVicar —March 26, 2023  It's not just the price of food that’s been increasing as of late — several types of products, from clothing to electronic devices, are facing a gradual rise in cost. However, according to the United Nations, changes in the economic state of the food industry are likely to have more pertinent effects worldwide.The climate crisis, agriculture, and the economy.....According to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius will effectively make eight percent of farmland worldwide unusable for agricultural purposes. For each degree Celsius that the temperature warms, crop production declines by five to 15 per cent. As the trajectory of global average temperature — which placed 2022 as the sixth warmest year on record — demonstrates, these declines in land availability and productivity are seemingly inevitable.

Rising temperatures go hand in hand with rising prices. Not only do these increases in global temperature affect food security, but this insecurity also contributes to an increase in cost. In 2022, the United Nations reported that, globally, the price of food was 23 per cent higher than the previous year. Current events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have been cited as reasons for this increase, and there’s no doubt that the subsequent impacts on supply chains have contributed to the abnormally high cost of food. However, the climate crisis continues to dominate the narrative, and its continual impact on the economy and agriculture industry has devastating implications for food prices. Effects of the climate crisis on agriculture......Higher temperatures and altered weather patterns have shifted growing seasons, thus making it harder for farmers to predict when these growing seasons will occur. The intensification of extreme weather events is also a major reason for concern, creating problems for production and threatening the health of existing crops and farmland. Widespread water stress and water shortage complicate irrigation, especially in arid regions that happen to be the centres of agricultural production......read on    https://thevarsity.ca/2023/03/26/opinion-the-climate-crisis-and-food-costs-are-innately-