The "most-deprived" areas across the planet are in facing a land crisis, BBC reports, according to the World Food Programme.
Due to droughts and flooding, the organization's global office director Martin Frick told BBC, that because "the land can no longer sustain crops" in some places, there are "zero" harvests left as a result.
Furthermore, Frick warns that "that without efforts to reverse land degradation globally, richer countries would also begin to suffer crop failures" as well.
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Frick noted that "as a father of three, he was 'not a fan of doomsday scenarios', but admitted that 'what we are seeing is most worrying,'" BBC reports.
The World Food Program director, however, offered a glimpse of hope by arguing that it's still possible for countries to move "toward localised farming that seeks to reinvigorate the land."
Still, BBC reports, "Meanwhile, flash floods in Afghanistan earlier this year are estimated to have destroyed 24,000 hectares of land already considered highly degraded. Environmentalists expect that as soil degrades, failing crops will strain global food supplies and increase migration from affected areas."
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Frick emphasized, "There's too much carbon in the air and too little carbon in the soils. With every inch of soil that you're growing, you're removing enormous amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere. So healthy soils – carbon-rich soils – are a prerequisite to fixing climate change."
Save Soil chief science officer Praveen Sridhar told the news outlet, "It's going to be disaster for human beings. It’s going to be like Mad Max."
Shrihar added, "There will be no humanity. There will be no charity. There will be no fairness... The only thing that lets you be will be survival."
BBC's full report is available at this link.
