The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather will cause developing countries to face food

According to a report by the Central News Agency on November 26, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on the 26th that droughts, floods and other extreme weather have become increasingly frequent in the past 30 years and will lead to an increase in food security threats in developing countries.

According to the FAO report, between 2003 and 2013, global losses caused by natural disasters amounted to US$1.5 trillion, which not only exceeded Australia's gross domestic product (GDP) for a whole year, but also hit agriculture hard.

The FAO noted that "these crop losses equate to 333 million metric tons of grains, pulses, meat, milk and other commodities." Every disaster reduces, on average, the number of calories available to people in developing countries by 7 per cent.

Asia suffered the largest direct losses in agricultural and livestock products, valued at $48 billion, but accounting for only 2 per cent of total agricultural and livestock production, while Africa suffered mostly in other related categories, valued at $14 billion, but accounting for 6 per cent of total production.

Natural disasters have almost tripled since the 1980s, posing considerable obstacles to fighting hunger and poverty, the FAO said.

Nearly 200 countries will try to agree on rules to limit climate change at next week's UN climate conference in Paris.

The FAO calls for increased investment in disaster response, recovery and adaptation to climate change to make agriculture more resilient to climate change.

Scientists say rising global temperatures caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions will lead to more extreme weather events than ever before.