Climate Change, Global Warming, and Food Security

The Impact of Climate Change on Food Security
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Climate change is a disastrous phenomenon that is negatively affecting humanity. Without practical adaptation and mitigation measures, these impacts will likely intensify in the future. Climate change is attributed to unique challenges, including the ability of countries to satisfy the nutritional and food security needs of their populations, and such uncertainties will increase as time progresses. Climate directly impacts food systems as the two concepts can be conceived as instigators and "victims" of the ramifications of climate change and associated variability in the long term. Climate change, global warming, nutrition, and agriculture are increasingly interconnected. This paper demystifies the confusion between global warming and climate change, authenticates the projection that global warming will escalate in the future, delineates the climate change-associated challenges on food security in developing economies, and offers insights on the appropriate allocation of financial aid in developing countries.
Climate Change and Global Warming Demystified
The terms climate change and global warming are typically used interchangeably, but research by Chophel (2022) indicates they are not the same phenomenon. The term global warming first emerged in the scholarly context in Wallace Broecker's article "Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of Pronounced Global Warming?" According to Chophel (2022), global warming is the recorded increase in the earth's temperature globally (both oceans and land). Climate change is understood are the ramifications emanating from the process of rising global temperatures or the overall change in earth's climate in the long term, including ocean acidification, increases in sea levels, and adverse weather occurrences (Chophel, 2022) In this vein, global warming is the rise in average temperatures caused by natural phenomena or the greenhouse effect due to gases emitted into the atmosphere because of industrial activities. On the other hand, the climate change phenomenon derives from global warming. It causes an escalation of meteorological events, including variations in precipitation, storms, drought, and desertification, among other extreme natural occurrences (Liu & Huang, 2022).
The confusion between the two terms is anchored on different frames. For example, both terms delineate various aspects of the climatic phenomenon caused by alterations in the level of greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere. Climate change and global warming are used interchangeably because they describe the same phenomenon. Some scholars prefer "global warming," while others choose "climate change." Both terms are employed interchangeably in some research contexts to extract articles to evaluate climate change issues. In addition, other researchers argue for the need to differentiate between the two terms. It is also well-established that both concepts will likely trigger similar affective responses in Britain, the United States (U.S.), and other world regions (Liu & Huang, 2022). Therefore, the above scenario culminates in confusion between the two terms, thus warranting addition...