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The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security
October 25 , 2023
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- The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) released a its first-of-its-kind report.
- The world has also lost over $120 billion per year which amounts to five per cent of the annual global agricultural GDP.
- Disasters like floods, droughts, insect infestations, storms, disease and war have caused $123 billion every year in lost food production between 1991 and 2021.
- It would have been enough to feed up to half a billion people per year.
- Natural and man-made disasters have led to $3.8 trillion in crop and livestock losses over the last three decades.
- The average annual grain losses amounted to 69 million tonnes in the last three decades or so.
- It is equivalent to the entire cereal production of France in 2021.
- The world lost some 40 million tonnes of fruit and vegetable production and 16 million tonnes of meat, dairy and eggs to disasters.
- Around 23 per cent of losses due to disasters were sustained in the agricultural sector.
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