Climate Change and Nutrition: Implications for the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

ABSTRACT: The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) is considered among the world's most vulnerable to the dire impacts of climate change. This review paper aims at (1) characterizing climate change in countries of the EMR; (2) examining the potential effects of climate change on the nutritional and health status of the population; and (3) identifying the most vulnerable population groups. The paper explored several climate change indicators including daily temperatures, extreme temperature, daily precipitation, extreme precipitation (flooding, drought, storms, etc.), humidity, CO₂ concentrations and sea surface temperature in EMR countries. Findings suggest that climate change will exert a significant adverse effect on water and food security and showed that the nutritional status of the po

SUBMITTER: Al-Jawaldeh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9779613 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature