Food safety and climate change
Resources
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Climate change is making our food less safeWebsite
Climate change is putting food safety at risk and action is needed to prepare the food system for the challenges ahead. In the article, FAO Food and quality specialists discuss this topic to learn more.
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How Is Climate Change Affecting the Safety of Our Food?Website
This article draws on that research to outline some of the ways climate change can increase consumer exposure to contaminants through food.
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How a single aspect of climate change can make food less safePDF
This infographic aims to educate on the ways in which climate change makes food less safe through effects on different food safety hazards. To highlight the point, a single aspect of climate change - rising temperatures - is used to show how it impacts a number of food safety hazards like...
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Food safety – climate change and the role of WHO (summary)Website
Climate change is likely to have considerable impacts on food safety, both direct and indirect, placing public health at risk. In this first publication, WHO summarises the likely consequences on food safety when our climate change.
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Climate change is threatening the safety of our foodVideo
The video presents the key role aspects of climate in food safety.
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ForesightWebsite
Foresight is an approach that positions policymakers and private sector operators to address issues that will, or could, emerge in the medium-to-long term. The approach starts with gathering different types of information through forward-looking techniques, such as horizon scanning, scenario...
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Food safety – climate change and the role of WHO Website
Climate change is likely to have considerable impacts on food safety, both direct and indirect, placing public health at risk. In this first publication, WHO summarises the likely consequences on food safety when our climate change.
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Thinking about the future of food safetyPDF
In this publication, the FAO Food Safety Foresight programme provides an overview of the major global drivers and trends by describing their implications for food safety in particular and for agrifood systems by extrapolation. The various drivers and trends reported include climate change,...
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Climate change: Unpacking the burden on food safetyPDF
The purpose of this publication is to identify and attempt to quantify some current and anticipated food safety issues that are associated with climate change. The food safety hazards considered in the publication are foodborne pathogens and parasites, harmful algal blooms, pesticides, mycotoxins...
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Additional Info
Kind of Activities | Understanding basic concepts |
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Geographic Focus | Global |
Collection Updated | February 2025 |