Australia calls for urgent climate change action to secure global food supply

New Curtin University-led research has found climate change will have a substantial impact on global food production and health if no action is taken by consumers, food industries, government, and international bodies. Published in the Annual Review of Public Health, the study is a comprehensive 12-month review of published literature on climate change, healthy diet and actions needed to improve nutrition and health around the world.Lead researcher John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor Colin Binns, from the Curtin School of Population Health at Curtin University, said climate change has had a detrimental impact on health and food production for the past 50 years and far more needs to be done to overcome its adverse effects."The combination of climate change ...