JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 10 (UPI) -- Climate change will be felt most in agriculture, suggesting policymakers should look for more diverse food sources, U.N. officials said in South Africa.
The U.N. Standing Committee on Nutrition in its latest publication explored how climate trends will impact food and nutrition security.
The U.S. International Food Policy Research Institute, the report said, noted that food production declines would create general problem in nourishment.
Hans Herren, an agriculturist and president of the Millennium Institute, said in the report that the solution to nutrition doesn't lie in greater production but in greater diversity.
The UNSCN, meanwhile, calls on international aid and development agencies to establish a surveillance system to monitor climate-related hazard in food and nutrition.
Water, meanwhile, will become a greater issue as global climate patterns develop, suggesting the food issue transects many sectors, the report stressed.
"At every turn, there will be issues that policy makers and everyone else along the development continuum will have to deal with," wrote Herren in the report.
