Effects of Climatic Changes on Food Industry

Running head: EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC CHANGES ON FOOD INDUSTRY
EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC CHANGES IN FOOD INDUSTRY
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Introduction
The Food industry has faced tremendous growth and resilience in the 21st century and the
demands for the skilled employees continued to grow. The small and the medium-sized food
enterprises have witnessed the considerable development though there was an economic
slowdown [1]. The introduction of awards in the food business has encouraged the management
schools to produce more graduates those are better equipped with the aptitudes and the
competencies those are necessary for designing, managing and leading development within the
food industry. The strongest food business plans include mostly the brand cover, concept, great
sample menu, services, great services, management team, designing, market overview, marketing
publicity, effective business structure, and financial sectors. The food business allows the
entrepreneur to become the own boss of the business. The food industry is one of the permanent
fixtures in the UK’s economy and the growth has been recognized of about 5% in the year. This
business can be considered as one of the recession-proof industry as this business allows the
steady flow of the actual customers [2]. The high market demands are advantageous for the food
business industry as most time people like to eat outside, these rises the market demands of the
business. These food businesses are able to gain the popularity of providing different food
options like fast food, pizza, coffee shops, and others.
Descriptions of threats to business from climate change and policy
The food production is extremely sensitive to changes in climate change. Climate change
has proved to be the major reason for erratic changes in the weather pattern, leading intense
rainfall, frequent dry spells, anomalies in the normal temperature, extremes of temperature and
constant increasing the temperature. This has not only hampered the cropping pattern but leads to

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crop damage. This has led to reducing the resilience to combat against droughts, increasing the
climate the change. The response to climate change boost production to a measurable effect on
the quality and quantity of food produced [3].
The climatic change poses the fundamental threat to the places, species and the livelihood of
people. The environmental risks for the business include the extreme temperature and the
extreme climatic conditions. These also include floods, fires, and the natural disasters and this
food business industry faces an increase in cost because of the energy management, water usage
and especially the water restrictions [4]. The extreme weather including the extreme heat, or
extreme cold, strong winds and the natural disasters like fire or the flood can affect the business
conditions. The food business not only needs to plan for those events regarding the
understandings of their employee’s obligations to the employees for managing the extreme
weather conditions. Climate change can also affect the food business by altering the long-term
weather patterns [5]. The climate change mitigation may involve the lowering of carbon
emissions for minimizing the impact of climate change in the future as shown in [5, Fig. 1]
The climatic change can bring physical damages to the restaurant buildings, supplies, and
equipment due to the result of flooding and the different extreme events, which can raise the cost
for the food industry. These events can disrupt the business by halting manufacturing or by
making it impossible for the employees get to the work. The food business around the world
needs to look for the scope of improvements for preparing for the climatic changes. The food
business organization need to prepare the business conditions regarding the investments in
resilient buildings, which can better withstand the damage from the storms, flooding, and strong
winds.

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Fig 1: Impacts of climatic change on the business operations
The policy and regulatory framework have been designed to mitigate climate change for
business. The adoption of the global framework addresses the Green House Gas (GHG)
challenges under which remains the major countries emitting pollution and this global
framework is needed for reducing the emission. The goal of these programs is to stabilize and
then reduce the GHG concentrations in the atmosphere to levels is likely to reduce the
expansions of the impacts of climatic change. Therefore it is important for the climate-change
policies for including incentives for stimulating the private sector innovations and investment in
the technologies, which are needed to transition to the low-carbon economy [6]. The legislative
or the regulatory framework needs to be based on the sound science that is designed for
encouraging conservations and stimulating the private sector innovation and the investments,
which will enable the reductions in the carbon emissions to be achieved as effectively as
possible. In addition to this, all the stakeholders are needed to be involved in the development of
the framework. The organizations are moving forward towards taking voluntary steps for