Southeast Asia’s food production

Southeast Asia’s food production has faced mounting challenges in recent years from increasingly severe climate events such as heat waves, droughts, floods, and storms. However, the looming threat of extreme heat is poised to overshadow these other impacts, based on climate modelling in Singapore’s Third Climate Change Study (V3) As the region grapples with agricultural adaptation strategies for flood resistance, drought tolerance, and salinity management, the urgent reality is that extreme heat could impose even more devastating consequences on food supply. Southeast Asia needs to prioritise adaptation measures to develop heat-tolerant agriculture, particularly rice. สล็อต