Climate change has already had a powerful negative effect on agriculture and food security for the world’s most vulnerable, and that impact will get worse, according to agricultural experts responding to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report at a conference in London. Pramod Aggrawal, an IPCC author and reviewer, said scientific data on agriculture over the last three decades shows that “indeed some impacts (are) already happening in terms of food security. It’s not a problem of the future anymore.” Between 2011 and 2012, for instance, global production of grain fell 3 percent, largely as a result of droughts that hit maize in the United States and wheat in Australia, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, according to the Earth Policy Institute.

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