1. Climate change and food waste in developing countries
Group- VI
Job Cheruiyot, Ngà Mai, Debjyoti Majumder, Sumita Chandel, Sahitya Murali

2. Climate Change - reality or hype?

3. Heat wave in North India, Typhoon Haiyan in the U.S.A.
How to explain this???
Severe drought hits
S.Africa, 2015
Cold wave in
North India, 2006
Heat wave in North India,
2007
Typhoon Haiyan in the U.S.A.
Uttarakhand floods, 2013

4. Effects of Elevated CO2 on Net Photosynthesis in C3 and C4 plants
Impact Of CO2 on Agricultural Productivity
Effects of Elevated CO2 on Net Photosynthesis in C3 and C4 plants
Calculated Actual and Potential rates of Crop Canopy Photosynthesis versus Temperature in C3 plants
2 x CO2
C3 plants
Current CO2 levels
C4 plants
Stephen, et al., 2006

5. Climate Change Reduces Global Food Availability
Temp.
Rainfall
Food Production decreases by 10% by 2030.
Food Production decreases by 20% by 2050.
DSSAT model results: +1 => 4 to 6 % yield loss in global wheat
Haile Von Braun, et al., 2016

6. Agricultural Yield
Decreased pollen viability - Yield loss
Spikelet sterility
Increased risk of disease
Microbial processes
Affect C and N cycle.
Beneficial microbial organism reduced.
Higher Sea level rise
Crop production is affected
Soil salinity

7. Changes and interactions in environmental and socioeconomic
conditions can affect food security outcomes in distant locations

8. What do we need to do?
How important is climate change? How do we build resilience to climate change?
How can we adapt and/or mitigate the effects?
What does this mean to the smallholder farmers around the world?
What are the implications for investments, finance and governance of global agriculture and food security?

9. Mitigation options detailed in the Paris Climate Agreement
Agriculture must reduce emissions by CO2 equivalent of 1 Giga-ton per year in 2030 (current only % of this goal). Wollenberg, et al. 2016
Mitigation options
New technologies (e.g. methane inhibitors)
Land use practices / precision farming / range land
Incentives for carbon reductions (incl. soil carbon)
Consumption adjustment, waste reduction

10. International Panel on Food, Nutrition & Agriculture (IPFNA)
Decision makers on
costs, benefits and risk
Policy
(Govt. and Non Govt.)
Technology
(Science based)
Agenda and priority setting
Education
Coordination
Transparent and Participatory

11. Adaptation options for Food and Agriculture
Diversify and increase production
Trade more and facilitate finance
Food waste management
Improve food processing
Water storage and better irrigation
Facilitate job change with skill
Institutional strengthening (Farm Women’s group)
Science and digitalization

12. What is food waste?
“Food loss and food waste refer to the decrease of food in subsequent stages of the food supply chain intended for human consumption.” - UN Food and Agriculture Organisation

13. The food supply chain
Brown, M.E., et al., 2015

14. FoodDrink Europe

15. Food waste in Kenya

16. Rejected products are lost as the local markets cannot absorb them.

17. Public Distribution System, India

18. What’s the problem?

19. Capital Mind, 2015

20. So, what do we do? Alternative use Local markets
Food quality assessment
Focus on nutritional value
Revamp/introduce government policies

21. Questions?

22. Thank you!