Climate change poses a significant threat to global food
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The gap
Climate change poses a significant threat to global food security. Rural dwellers are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. There is a need for effective mitigation strategies among rural dwellers.
Evidence profile
Sourced from the limitations and stated challenges and abstract and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2024 and 2026, spanning 4 journals. Those papers have been cited 3 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps
- Safeguarding diet quality in a changing climate: a scoping review (2026) · Frontiers in Nutrition · doi
The scoping review positions nutrition-sensitive climate the broader agriculture-healthchange adaptation within environment nexus. The study resonates strongly with global frameworks such as the IPBES Nexus Report (97) and the planetary boundaries framework (98).
generallimitationsevidence 5/5Keywords: climate change nexus scoping review positions nutrition sensitive broader agriculture health adaptation within environment resonates - RURAL COOPERATIVES; A CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TOOL AMONG RURAL DWELLERS IN ITESIWAJU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE (2026) · International Journal of Agricultural and Veterinary Science · doi
Climate change poses a significant threat to global food security. Rural dwellers are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. There is a need for effective mitigation strategies among rural dwellers.
generalstated challengesevidence 5/5Keywords: climate change poses significant threat global food security - The impact of smallholder farmers’ knowledge on climate change adaptation on food security in Tanzania (2024) · Cogent Social Sciences · cited 3× · doi
While research has proposed farm-level strategies to mitigate these impacts, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of local knowledge adaptation strategies and their influence on food security outcomes remains scarce.
generalabstractevidence 4/5Keywords: strategies proposed farm level mitigate impacts empirical evidence effectiveness local knowledge adaptation influence food security - Responding to the intersecting challenges of non-communicable diseases, food insecurity, and climate change in small island states: the Global Community Food and Health Project (2026) · Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · doi
Further research is needed to estimate the longer-term impacts of local food production interventions if scaled out. The project's approach can be replicated in other settings to address the intersecting challenges of non-communicable diseases, food insecurity, and climate change.
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 3/5Keywords: further research needed estimate longer-term impacts local food
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