By Giovanni Strona
Publication Date: 2026-02-15 05:45:00
Globally, more than 295 million people suffered from hunger and starvation in 2025 due to conflict, displacement, climate change and economic disasters.
The bad news is that things are about to get much worse. My latest research finds that climate change could push more than a billion people into food crises by 2100. This number represents the total number of people alive and unborn today who will experience at least one episode of severe food insecurity before the end of the century.
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I am a quantitative ecologist – I study nature using data and computer models to understand how the environment and people respond to major pressures such as climate change, pollution and land use change.
I developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict how climate change alone could trigger severe food crises…