Systematic review identifies climate change and conflict as top threats to global staple crops, maps resilience strategies
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Vijay Kumar Malesu
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Summary
A systematic review published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications analyzed 105 studies to identify major threats to global staple crops (maize, rice, wheat). Key drivers of food insecurity include climate change, water scarcity, land-use change, biofuel demand, trade disruptions, pandemics, and conflict. The review highlights practical solutions such as international trade, agricultural innovation, virtual water trading, and well-managed food stockpiles to strengthen food security and protect vulnerable nations from global shocks.
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The authors identified the major drivers of global food insecurity affecting staple crops and examined policy and technological approaches that may improve food availability and resilience worldwide.
Climate change, water scarcity, land-use change, biofuel demand, trade disruptions, pandemics and conflict are major threats to maize, rice and wheat supplies.
International trade, agricultural innovation, virtual water trading and well-managed food stockpiles [are] practical ways to strengthen food security.
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