Submission statement: related to the future as this article illustrates effects that could soon spread to many other countries without drastic action taken on climate change.
Pakistan is one of the countries hardest hit by the changing climate. Now it appears ready to heavily affect their domestic food production in 2025-26. Key crops, such as onions and tomatoes, are predicted to go from net export to needing to be imported.
> Speaking at the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) & V20 and the All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters, Importers and Merchants Association (PFVA), the association’s Patron-in-Chief, Waheed Ahmed, said, “I am seeing a major food crisis in Pakistan in 2025-26 if the threat from climate change is left unattended to.”
> He pointed out that Pakistan had become an importer of even those food items which were commonly consumed in almost all households everyday including onion and tomato due to the impact of climate change. Until a year ago, Pakistan was a net exporter of such commodities.
This potential reduction in crops is compounded by Pakistan dealing with relentless heatwaves that are killing hundreds -https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn05rz3w4x1o
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Submission statement: related to the future as this article illustrates effects that could soon spread to many other countries without drastic action taken on climate change.
Pakistan is one of the countries hardest hit by the changing climate. Now it appears ready to heavily affect their domestic food production in 2025-26. Key crops, such as onions and tomatoes, are predicted to go from net export to needing to be imported.
> Speaking at the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) & V20 and the All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters, Importers and Merchants Association (PFVA), the association’s Patron-in-Chief, Waheed Ahmed, said, “I am seeing a major food crisis in Pakistan in 2025-26 if the threat from climate change is left unattended to.”
> He pointed out that Pakistan had become an importer of even those food items which were commonly consumed in almost all households everyday including onion and tomato due to the impact of climate change. Until a year ago, Pakistan was a net exporter of such commodities.
This potential reduction in crops is compounded by Pakistan dealing with relentless heatwaves that are killing hundreds -https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn05rz3w4x1o
It’s also hard to forget the 2022 floods, which have been linked to climate change as well – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-024-00630-4
Is Pakistan the proverbial “canary in the coal mine” of what is to come or an unfortunate outlier?
Next up at 11, water is wet but I also stuck my hand in fire and ouchie, that burns.
Immediately after the “food crisis” it will create a refugee crisis. It will be an uninhabitable desert in our lifetime.