The Food-Climate Nexus
Food security — the reliable access to safe, affordable, and nutritious food — is inextricably linked to a predictable climate and healthy ecosystems.
That’s according to the United Nations Foundation, which also in 2020 reported: “Climate change and associated severe weather, droughts, fires, pests, and diseases are already threatening the production of food around the world.”
In the summer of 2020, heat and blazing fires across the Western U.S. threatened crops and livestock, and a derecho storm devastated millions of acres of corn and soybean production in the Midwest. These climate-fed disasters are exacerbated across the world in areas with less economic viability.
For Earth Day 2023, Ted Volskay, leader of the state League’s Environmental Working Group (EWG), presented a program on the Food-Climate Nexus to help us better “understand that food is inextricably linked to global warming in multiple ways.”
The program’s two objectives, according to Volskay, were:
Inform League members that there are opportunities for everyone to reduce their personal carbon footprint in a meaningful way.
Build a sustainability-conscious culture within the League of Women Voters going forward.
Watch the video above.