The UNSCN has explored ways of assessing the impact of climate change on food and nutrition security in its influential news publication, printed twice a year. Herren is guest editor of the first edition to focus on the impact of climate change on food and nutrition security.
Many projections have illustrated how the unfolding impact of climate change will hit food production. In 2009, the US-based think-tank International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) pointed out that climate change could push up the numbers of undernourished children.
Later in 2009, the UNSCN urged aid and development agencies and other organizations to develop a knowledge base that could inform future programming on climate change and nutrition, and to set up a comprehensive surveillance system that could identify interventions for protecting nutrition from climate-related hazards.
Read this edition of the UNSCN news publication at: Climate change: food and nutrition security implications
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