how climate change is projected to affect the global risk of hunger over time for a range of climate change impacts and the ssp middleoftheroad socioeconomic scenario is shown in figure the declining trend in the number of undernourished with or without climate change indicates that the overall impact of climate change during the period until is smaller than that of the other drivers embedded in the socioeconomic scenario particularly income growth in the absence of climate change most regions are projected to see declining numbers of people at risk of hunger