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JAKARTA - Head of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Dwikorita Karnawati said that the threat of a food crisis as a result of climate change is not just a figment because the earth's temperature is getting hotter.

According to him, the rapid pace of climate change has an impact on national food security due to declining yields and crop failure.

"The temperature or temperature of the earth globally currently rises 1.2 degrees Celsius. This figure is seen as a small number, even though it is a large and deadly number. There are many extreme phenomena, hydro-meteorological disasters caused by global warming", said Dwikorita as reported by ANTARA, Friday, July 7.

In the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) of the Indonesian Agonomy Association in Jakarta, Thursday (6/7), Dwikorita said, the hunger disaster as predicted by the world food organization FAO will occur in 2050 is a real threat.

This situation is not only a threat to Indonesia or limited developing countries. But all countries in the world face the same threat if there are no concrete steps to overcome the climate crisis.

"In 2050, the world's population is estimated to reach 10 billion. If the food security of countries in the world is weak, there will be a hunger disaster due to the decreasing number of food productions as a result of climate change," he added.

Dwikorita said, not a few think that the threat of climate change and food crises has not been too visible in Indonesia, because the availability of natural resources is still quite abundant and Indonesia's geographical conditions that allow agricultural production to continue throughout the year.

However, he said, if the current global climate situation is not taken seriously, Indonesia could be too late to anticipate a hunger disaster by 2050.

Indonesia's national food security, continued Dwikorita, is faced with a big challenge in the form of population increase in the midst of food production which tends to stagnate.

Dwikorita said that if there is no policy intervention, the potential economic loss in Indonesia (2020-2024) will reach IDR 544 trillion due to the impact of climate change. Therefore, climate resilience policies are one of the priorities that are considered capable of avoiding potential economic losses of IDR 281.9 trillion until 2024.