ENV H 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Cardiovascular Disease, Food Security, Malnutrition

• School: UW
• Department: Environmental Health
• Course: ENV H 311
• Professor: Tania M Busch Isaksen

Document Summary

Discuss how climate change is affecting the global food supply chain, with a focus on nutrition. Change in average conditions in a region over a long period of time. It is attributed to the greenhouse effect warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from earth toward space. Results in observable effects on the environment. Nutrition: the intake of food, considered in relation to the body"s dietary needs. Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and some cancers. A food system includes the processes, resources, and actors involved in the food supply chain and a variety of social, cultural, political, economic, equity, & ecological and climatic influences and outcomes. Increases in temperature, heat waves, and droughts will impact agriculture. Climate change, agriculture, and nutrition are all interconnected. Climate change will then have an impact on food security. Usda report found that climate change would: 1. reduce domestic production of corn, soybean, and wheat compared to the future plan.