The article “Climate Change is a Massive Threat to Food Security and Agriculture” talks about the impact of climate change in Australia for the future. It starts by alerting the Australian people that they can expect climate change to make food scarcer as well as expensive in the near future. The fact that the earth is getting warmer and warmer every day is having a significant impact on crop yields in southern Australia. Another fact that is also contributing to this impact is the low rainfall that Australia is suffering lately due to climate change.

The bad news is that these negative factors will only become bigger in the future and therefore crop yields will continue to be affected and in a larger scale. It is important to note that some extreme weather events such as droughts, cyclones, and bushfires will end up leading to a significant decrease in productivity regarding the agricultural sector in Australia. This is a really big issue in the country since agriculture is responsible for $50 billion of the country’s GDP, which represents about 2.4%. Besides that, Australia exports a big number of agricultural products, and suffering from the decrease in production will lead to less money coming into the country. These factors discussed previously will also cause Australia’s strong food security characteristic to become less strong.

Some farmers have started to change their way of production in order to try to escape from this severe issue. They count on the young generation of farmers that seems to be more knowledgeable regarding this topic. Australia definitely needs to make changes in its agricultural culture in order to be able to adapt to climate change, otherwise the country will suffer severely from food security as well as in economic power.

Reference: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/10/06/climate-change-massive-threat-food-security-agriculture