Impact of Climate Change on Food Security: Study on Odisha State

Abstract

Climate change being one the centre point of academic and policy discussion round the world which revel that agriculture has always been affected by climate variability often resulting in food insecurity, hunger and poverty. The greatest challenge that the world faces today is the devastation of climate change. As per the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects, which predicts the global mean temperature may increase between 1.4 and 5.8 degree Celsius by 2100. In turn it is expected to have severe impacts on global hydrological system, ecological system, sea level, agricultural production and many other related processes posing a challenge for the sustainable development. It shall definitely slow down the pace of development through increased exposure to climate variability and erosion of capacity to adapt. With these surroundings an attempt has been made in the present paper to study the impact of climate change on food security based on Odisha state.