【行业研报】IMF-应对气候冲击：空间框架下的粮食安全（英）-2023.8_市场营销策划_重点报告2.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE 10 Introduction In 2021, 2.3 billion people suffered from moderate or severe food insecurity, a figure that has been steadily growing for the last decade (FAO, 2022). Insufficient food can lower individual productivity (Behrman et al., 1997; Cole and Neumayer, 2005), reduce the rate of human cap- ital accumulation (Asfaw, 2016; Chakraborty and Jayaraman, 2019), and give rise to poverty traps through insufficient physical capital accumulation (Barrett and Carter, 2013; Kraay and McKenzie, 2014). A core determinant of this worsening trend is the increasing influence of cli- mate cha