{"id":77120,"date":"2026-04-22T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/22\/world-food-systems-extreme-heat-farming-un-report"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:00:22","slug":"world-food-systems-pushed-to-the-brink-by-extreme-heat-un-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77120","title":{"rendered":"World food systems \u2018pushed to the brink\u2019 by extreme heat, UN warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise<\/p>\n<p>Extreme heat is threatening the world\u2019s food systems, with farmers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/ng-interactive\/2025\/oct\/09\/extreme-heat-deaths-autopsy\">unable to work outside<\/a>, livestock experiencing stress and crop yields falling, putting the livelihoods of more than a billion people in peril, <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-media.fao.org\/Detail\/2A6XC5L6RULY\">the UN has warned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said food supply in some areas was being \u201cpushed to the brink\u201d by increasingly common and severe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/apr\/08\/extreme-weather-heatwaves-breaching-human-survival-limits-study-finds\">heatwaves<\/a>, on land and at sea, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4060\/cd9394en\">major report<\/a> written jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/22\/world-food-systems-extreme-heat-farming-un-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to riseExtreme heat is threatening the world\u2019s food systems, with farmers unable to work outside, livestock experiencing stress&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,737,246,265,41,2331,65,2997,2684,653,2002,311,3534,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-agriculture","category-americas","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-heat","category-farm-animals","category-farming","category-fish","category-food","category-global-food-crisis","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77121,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77120\/revisions\/77121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}