Countries need to shift to more sustainable food systems, stepping up action to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change, FAO Director-General Jos? Graziano da Silva told participants at the seventh Forum on Agriculture in the Kingdom of Morocco. "Everything we do needs to take climate change into consideration," he stressed. "And the time is now. We cannot afford to wait." "Climate change has the potential to reconfigure the planet's food production scenario," Graziano da Silva said, adding that it reintroduced "an element of uncertainty" after decades in which hunger was caused more by a lack of access to the means to produce or purchase food, rather than insufficient supplies globally.

"The worlds poorest are particularly vulnerable," he said. "Not only do they have fewer means to react, but they also tend to live in already marginal production areas," where the impact of climate change in agricultural production is felt to an even greater extent.

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