Introduction:

The climate change is a developing phenomenon and it affects directly or indirectly human health. One of its effects is the high prevalence of child obesity.

Objective:

To analyze the climate change repercussion and food insecurity over child obesity.

Methods:

A documentary review was performed. Relevant researches were localized and selected from electronics databases as Medline, Health Virtual Library, Google Scholar, SciELO and digitals books. For the search there were used some terms like: climate, climate change, food insecurity and child obesity, locating 119 published articles on the topic in the last 15 years. Fifty articles on the relationship between climate change, food insecurity and child obesity were selected.

Conclusions:

Climate change is irreversible and agriculture is a very vulnerable area, which jeopardizes the production of healthy food and moves specific population sectors to a food insecurity state. The population, including children, whom resorts to fast food, with high energetic content, to supply nourishment needs, and as a result of complex interaction with others factors, increases pediatric obesity’s prevalence. It is a challenge for governments to achieve a safe, sustainable, with ecologic approach diet to revert the food insecurity state in which some sectors live globally, and in that way to impact positively in the current child obesity and overweight’s epidemic.

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