Intensified climate change inevitably affects human life and the state of the animal and plant world and becomes a tangible threat to the population's well-being and sustainable development. These factors predetermine the need to consider climate change as one of the key long-term factors of Moldovan food security. In response to this concern, we set out to investigate the impact of climate change on the resilience of food security in the Republic of Moldova. The applied research methodology was based mainly on quantitative methods in the R programming language. Following the analysis, the vulnerability index was constructed for 1997-2023, and the top 5 years with the highest vulnerability were determined. In order to statistically validate the identified critical observations and reduce the complexity in the process of constructing the vulnerability index, the principal components method was applied. The results showed us that 2023 and 1997 are the most vulnerable years. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) reported that climate change explains approximately 80% of the variation, while food security explains 20%. In conclusion, it was found that an increase in vulnerability in recent years indicates that climate pressure is intensifying at a faster pace than the adaptive capacity of the food system of the Republic of Moldova. If the current trend continues, the risk of food insecurity will increase significantly, which justifies the urgency of policies to adapt and strengthen food security resilience.
Stratan et al. (Mon,) studied this question.