The evidence illustrates loss and damage
around barriers and limits to adaptation: growing
food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water
supplies, deteriorating human welfare and
increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy
food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).
Farmers and others who depend on rural livelihoods for income are benefitting from rising agricultural productivity
around the world, including in parts of Asia and Africa where the need for
increased food supplies is most critical.