3.8 trillion dollars in food losses caused by disasters in 30 years

The food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today that natural and man-made disasters have caused a loss of 3.8 trillion dollars worth of crops and livestock over 30 years, “said FAO.
Floods, droughts, invasive insects, storms, diseases and wars caused the loss of about 123 billion dollars a year from food production between 1991 and 2021, equivalent to 5 percent of total production or enough to feed up to half a billion people a year.
This is the first time that the UN has made such estimates, in order to determine the scale of disaster costs at the global and individual levels.
Piero Conforti, deputy head of FAO’s Statistics Department, told AFP,”the international community is aware that disasters… They are growing exponentially… It has increased four times since the seventies” and has an increasing impact on food production.
The FAO report entitled “The impact of disasters on agriculture and food security” concluded that disasters are increasing in intensity and frequency from 100 per year in the seventies to 400 per year in the last two decades.
Climate change is as much responsible as humans for livestock diseases.”Agriculture in the world is being subjected to additional disruptions due to the many risks and threats such as floods, water scarcity, drought, low agricultural yields, fishery resources, loss of biodiversity and environmental degradation,”FAO said.