UN sets out roadmap to combat global hunger amid climate crisis

Cows at the Floating Farm in the Netherlands. The farm’s owners say its approach is a way to feed cities as the climate crisis spurs extreme weather and flooding. Photograph: Patrick Post/AP

Reforming the world’s food systems will be a key step in limiting global temperature rises, the UN has said, as it set out the first instalment of a roadmap for providing food and farming while staying within 1.5C.

Food production is highly vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis, with research suggesting that as much as a third of global food could be at risk from global heating.