NUTRITION

The ramifications of climate change on human health are vast: agriculture, nutrition, diets, and health as a whole are negatively affected. Climate is both a potential driver and outcome of changes in nutritional status. In addition to direct and indirect impacts on health as a whole, climate change influences nutritional status through the enabling, food, work and social, health, and living environments, which ultimately leads to disrupted health behaviors and biological status, disease, diminished productivity, and mortality. The intersection of climate change, food security and nutrition is critical given growing adverse climate change impacts that threaten the food security and nutrition outcomes of the most vulnerable in the Global South the most. A better understanding of the pathways linking climate change with nutrition is critical to develop effective interventions to ensure that the world’s population has access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food.