Impacts of Climate Change and Extreme Events on Global Food Security
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change risk and adaptation; climate change economy; global climate change; agriculture and food security
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Against the background of intensifying global climate change, global food security is facing increasingly severe systemic risks. Major factors are profoundly impacting all stages of food production, distribution, consumption, and allocation through multiple pathways. These include rising global temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, growing frequency and intensity of extreme events, and the looming threat of climate tipping points. These changes directly endanger the four core dimensions of food security: availability, access, utilization, and stability. This situation not only poses unprecedented challenges to regional and national food security governance systems but also imposes significant constraints on global efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) centered on “Zero Hunger”. Food security lies at the heart of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. SDG 2 explicitly calls for "ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture," underscoring its foundational role in the global sustainable development framework. Addressing climate shocks and tipping point risks has thus become an urgent task for safeguarding food security, driving agricultural system transformation, and realizing a sustainable future.
We are pleased to open up submissions to this Special Issue of Sustainability, titled “Impacts of Climate Change and Extreme Events on Global Food Security”. This Special Issue aims to delve into the complex interactions and feedback mechanisms between climate change, extreme weather and climate events, and global food security, with a particular focus on their multi-scale impacts and response pathways within the context of sustainable development. We welcome original research articles, reviews, and perspectives covering all relevant themes and encourage interdisciplinary, multi-methodological academic contributions. The scope of this Special Issue is broad and incorporates interdisciplinary perspectives including, but not limited to, atmospheric sciences, meteorology, climatology, geography, economics, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, and global development. We encourage studies that utilize novel theoretical frameworks and quantitative and qualitative methodologies, as well as case studies conducted across diverse geographic regions.
We welcome contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following:
- Attribution and impacts of extreme climate events and climate change;
- Climate tipping points and cascading risks to food systems;
- Compound extreme events and their impacts on agriculture and food security;
- Construction of food security evaluation indicator systems at different scales (global, regional, and national) under climate change, and multi-dimensional spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of food security;
- Impacts of climate change-driven food market fluctuations on socioeconomic vulnerability;
- Applications of big data and artificial intelligence in monitoring, assessing, and early warning of food security risks under climate change;
- Vulnerabilities in trade and supply chains for global food security;
- Comparative case studies on food security responses to climate change and extreme events.
We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and conceptual frameworks that contribute to this pressing field of study.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Prof. Dr. Jieming Chou
Dr. Yuan Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- extreme events
- climate tipping points
- agriculture
- food security
- impact assessment
- sustainable development
- adaptation
- risk mitigation
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